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9781566635981

Liberation's Children

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  • ISBN13:

    9781566635981

  • ISBN10:

    1566635985

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-07-30
  • Publisher: Ivan R Dee
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Summary

Kay Hymowitz explores the predicament of a generation growing up in a world where adults lavish them with expensive clothes, toys and vacations, but don't know how to provide them the ordinary truths that give life meaning.

Author Biography

Kay S. Hymowitz is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute in New York City and a contributing editor of City Journal.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi
1 Fear and Loathing at the Day-Care Center
3(16)
2 Survivor: The Manhattan Kindergarten
19(16)
3 On Sesame Street, It's All Show
35(19)
4 Raising Children for an Uncivil Society
54(19)
5 Who Killed School Discipline?
73(14)
6 Tweens: Ten Going on Sixteen
87(21)
7 What's Wrong with the Kids?
108(14)
8 The L Word: Love as Taboo
122(16)
9 J. Crew U.
138(12)
10 Ecstatic Capitalism's Brave New Work Ethic 150(20)
11 The End of Herstory 170(21)
Index 191

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