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Chargement... Behave (2016)par Andromeda Romano-Lax
  
Abuse, Grief, Loss (29) Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  poingu | Feb 22, 2020 |   Note: I was given a free ARC by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. (  ) Neftzger | Jul 2, 2016 |  ) lisapeet | Apr 14, 2016 | She fell for this womanizer and had an affair with him. After he divorced his wife, he married Rosalie days later. I could not like these two people at all. They weren't much different than the Nazis, with their experiments on children. Rosalie, who was so determined to make a career for herself, got pregnant and had two children. So much for her plans. She stayed married to the womanizer, knowing full well what he was doing. What more can I say about this couple. The writing was good. (  ) Connie57103 | Mar 14, 2016 |  ) hfineisen | Mar 13, 2016 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"In 1920, when she graduated from Vassar College with her degree in psychology, Rosalie Rayner took a coveted position at the Johns Hopkins research lab to assist the charismatic John B. Watson, the man who pioneered behaviorist psychology. Together, John Watson and Rosalie Rayner conducted experiments on hundreds of babies to prove behaviorist principles of nurture over nature. They also embarked on a scandalous affair that cost them both their jobs. The Watsons' bestselling parenting book, Psychological Care of Infant and Child, which emphasized emotional detachment, affected the upbringings of generations of American children but Rosalie, now a mother herself, had to confront its tenets personally. With Behave, Andromeda Romano-Lax offers a fictional biography of Rosalie Rayner Watson, a woman whose lab work is now widely repudiated but who in her time was at the cutting edge of parenting psychology. This novel is in turns moving and horrifying, a thought-provoking and page-turning read about the meaning of motherhood"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I loved the way the narrator of this novel is both defensive of her life choices, and regretful of them. Watson, the precursor to B.F. Skinner and the originator of behaviorism, is completely believable as an egotistical yet fragile man intent on pushing his theories and protecting his fame, no matter who is hurt by it. Romano-Lax imagines Rayner to be both pliant and defiant of her husband's extreme views of parenting. Historical figure Mary Cover Jones appears early and late in the book as a friend of Rayner's, a fellow Vassar graduate, and an example of a woman of science who made better choices.
The novel works in that very tricky area of fiction about real people. It allowed me to speculate about Rayner's life, especially because the historic record about who she really was, and why she made the choices she did, is scant. (