Jennie Bristow

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.

Related Sessions
Saturday 30 October 2010, 10.30am Henry Moore Gallery
What makes life sacred?
Saturday 30 October 2010, 12.15pm Henry Moore Gallery
Your conscience, my health: the right to refuse?
Saturday 30 October 2010, 3.30pm Lecture Theatre 2
Choosing tomorrow's children
Saturday 30 October 2010, 5.15pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
The great population debate: too many carbon footprints?

Publications

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)


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