Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America

by Henry Jenkins

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Explores iconic works from The Cat in the Hat to The Twilight Zone to explain cultural trends in parenting and how we conceptualize childhood

The 60s produced a Baby Boom generation that catalyzed the dawn of a new era--the space age, the age of television, the global age, and the beginnings of civil rights. At the same time, a new paradigm for parenting was unfolding that put emphasis on permissiveness, defined by what...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1479831891

ISBN13:9781479831890

Release Date:February 2025

Publisher:New York University Press

Length:368 Pages

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