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, 12.15pm Lecture Theatre 2
Demonising parents

 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)

Buy tickets now

 Festival Buzz

Friction TV logo Fora TV logo Particle Physics is Sexy

Particle Physics is Sexy [Opens in new window]

"The Battle of Ideas is like a huge intellectual fair where a bewildering number of thinkers set out their stalls."
Julian Baggini, editor, The Philosophers' Magazine