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1 online resource (397) |
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| Summary |
We are the first generation in recent history to not know if our children will have a better life than us. Over the past thirty years, the dream of upward mobility and stable and securely paid employment has dissipated. This collection draws together insights from the disciplines of cultural studies, literary theory, psychoanalysis, psychosocial studies, social policy and sociology, in order to explore the complex and contested status of "the family" under neoliberalism. At one end of the spectrum, the intensification of work and the normalisation of long-hours working culture have undermined. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- "The fantasies are fraying": neoliberalism and the collapse of a progressive politics of the family / Roberta Garrett, Tracey Jensen and Angie Voela -- The Biopolitics of Neoliberalism -- 24-hour nurseries: the never-ending story of care and work / Camille Barbagallo -- Invisible labour: care provision for infants and children at UK art schools / Kim Dhillon -- "Mother work", education and aspiration in British-Bangladeshi families / Rifat Mahbub -- Dutiful sons and debt: the case of Chinese "money boys" / Chia-Hung Benny Lu -- Against resilience / Tracey Jensen -- Understanding the rise of "neuroparenting" / Jan MacVarish, Ellie Lee and Pam Lowe -- Safe for live: neoliberalism and mothers' milk / Olivia Guaraldo -- Mediating the Neoliberal Family -- Selling heaven: evangelical natalism in '19 Kids and Counting' / J. A. Forbes -- Homonormativity in representations of gay fathers on television: reproductive citizenship, gender and intimacy / Clare Bartholomaeus and Damien W. Riggs -- Lonely cloud: intensive parenting and social media in neoliberal times / Anneke Meyer and Katie Milestone -- Birthing babies in the blogosphere: gendered labour and entrepreneurial motherhood in cyberspace / Anija Dokter -- Maternal Reflections: Ambivalence and Anxiety -- Cavorting in the ruins? Truth, myth and resistance in contemporary memoirs / Roberta Garrett -- Reconstructing the Neo-Indian mother through memoir / Sucharita Sarkar -- New ties that bind: helicopter parenting and surveillance / Karen L. Lombardi -- "Just what kind of mother are you?": neoliberal guilt and privatised maternal responsibility in recent domestic crime fiction / Ruth Cain -- The Psychic Life of Neoliberal Families -- 'The End of Alice', not the end of the Oedipus Complex / Erica D. Galioto -- "Western Civilisation must be defended" : neoliberal values in teenage literature / Angie Voela -- What's awesome? Coercive elements and the threat of child sacrifice in 'The Lego Movie' / Louis Rothschild. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Families -- Economic aspects.
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Families -- Economic aspects. |
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Neoliberalism -- Social aspects.
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Neoliberalism. |
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Social aspects. |
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Popular culture.
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Popular culture. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Original 1443895296 9781443895293 (OCoLC)956750406 |
| ISBN |
1443899143 (electronic book) |
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9781443899147 (electronic book) |
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1443895296 |
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9781443895293 |
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