 | Jennie Bristow writes about parenting culture and intergenerational relations. She is editor of the BPAS journal Abortion Review, and runs the editing service Punctuate!. Bristow is author of Standing Up To Supernanny (Imprint Academic 2009) and co-author of Licensed to Hug: How child protection policies are poisoning the relationship between the generations and damaging the voluntary sector (Civitas 2008). Bristow writes the monthly ‘Guide to Subversive Parenting’ on spiked and edits the website www.ParentsWithAttitude.com. |
Wednesday 14 October 2009, 6.30pm Manchester
Do children need protecting from adult carers?
Sunday 1 November 2009, 3.45pm Café
Standing up to Supernanny: why we need a Parents' Liberation Movement
Standing Up to Supernanny (Imprint, 2009)
Licensed to Hug: How Child Protection Policies Are Poisoning the Relationship Between the Generations and Damaging the Voluntary Sector [with Frank Furedi] (Civitas, 2008)
Maybe I Do: Marriage and Commitment in Singleton Society (Academy of Ideas, 2002)
"Just when Kant's formulation that 'the public exercise of reason should be free' had begun to seem so remote and exhausted, the Battle should reinforce one's faith in the enduring worth of dissent and of the free traffic in ideas"
Swapan Chakravorty, professor of english, Jadavpur University
