Perfect Parents: Baby-Care Advice Past and Present

by Christina Hardyment

From the mid-eighteenth century to the present day, parents have been bombarded with advice on how to look after their babies. Here, Christina Hardyment provides a much-needed new perspective on the whole perplexing business, showing that not only has the advice given always been subject to the prevailing fashions and to the personal quirks of their authors, but that the books have had a hand in provoking the anxieties they set out to quell. From...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192861727
• ISBN13: 9780192861726
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.8"