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Beskrivning
This timely volume brings insights from multiple disciplines to bear on debates about declining fertility rates and modern approaches to child raising.
Nathanael Lauster is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia. Graham Allan is professor emeritus of sociology at Keele University in the United Kingdom.Contributors: Graham Allan, Anita Ilta Garey, Mona Gleason, Edward Kruk, Nathanael Lauster, Megan Lemmon, Todd F. Martin, Adena B.K. Miller, Jay Teachman, Nicholas W. Townsend, Rebecca L. Upton, James M. White, Mira Whyman, and Jing Zhao.
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction / Nathanael Lauster and Graham Allan1 Fertility Change in North America, 1950-2000 / Mira Whyman, Megan Lemmon, and Jay Teachman2 Changing Children and Changing Cultures: Immigration as a Source of Fertility and the Assumptions of Assimilation / Nathanael Lauster, Todd F. Martin, and James M. White3 Using Infertility, Useful Fertility: Cultural Imperatives on the Value of Children in the United States / Rebecca L. Upton4 The Performance of Motherhood and Fertility Decline: A Stage Props Approach / Nathanael Lauster5 Parenthood, Immortality, and the End of Childhood / Nicholas W. Townsend6 Leaving Home: An Example of the Disappearance of Childhood and Its End as a Predictable Set of Uniform Experiences / Adena B.K. Miller7 The Disappearance of Parents from Children's Lives: The Cumulative Effects of Child Care, Child Custody, and Child Welfare Policies in Canada / Edward Kruk8 Navigating the Pedagogy of Failure: Medicine, Education, and the Disabled Child in English Canada, 1900-45 / Mona Gleason9 Pathologizing Childhood / Anita Ilta GareyConclusion: From Children to Child: Ending in China / Jing Zhao, Nathanael Lauster, and Graham AllanIndex
