Front cover image for Boundaries of touch parenting and adult-child intimacy

Boundaries of touch parenting and adult-child intimacy

Discussing issues of parent-child contact ranging from breastfeeding to sexual abuse, this book traces the evolution of mainstream ideas about touching between adults and children over the course of the twentieth century.
eBook, English, c2007
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, c2007
1 online resource (xiv, 202 p.)
9780252032127, 0252032128
1162755704
To touch or not to touch
The rise of the expert, the fall of the mother
Breasts versus bottles and the sexual mother
Babies in bed : to sleep or not to sleep (with your baby)
Violent touch : feminists, conservatives, and child sexual abuse
Touching problems