Our Babies, Ourselves
How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent
$39.06
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
15 July 1999
Summary
A thought-provoking combination of practical parenting information and scientific analysis, Our Babies, Ourselves is the first book to explore why we raise our children the way we do—and to suggest that we reconsider our culture’s traditional views on parenting.
New parents are faced with innumerable decisions to make regarding the best way to care for their baby, and, naturally, they often turn for guidance to friends and family members who have already raised children. But …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385483629 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0385483627 |
| Author: | Meredith Small |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Doubleday & Co Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 1999 |
| Weight: | 283g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 133mm x 202mm |
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Critics Review
“So packed with compelling information about parenting practices around the globe that the reader may have trouble putting it down.”
–Salon
“Nothing less than a liberation. For too long parents have agonized…that there is one ‘right’ way to raise an infant. With engaging wit and profound scholarship…Small opens our eyes to the variety of child-care practices in other cultures.”
–James Shreeve, author of The Neanderthal Enigma
“Wise, humane and packed with information.”
–Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, professor of anthropology, University of California, Davis.
“In elegant, engaging prose, Meredith Small shows the mother-child relation to be a microcosm of society.”
–Frans B. M. de Waal, Ph.D.
Meredith Small
Meredith F. Small is a professor of anthropology at Cornell University and the author of Our Babies, Ourselves; What’s Love Got to Do with It?; and Female Choices. She writes frequently for Natural History Magazine, Discover, Scientific American, and is a commentator for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. She lives in Ithaca, New York.
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