Behave |
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| Author:
| Romano-Lax, Andromeda |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61695-653-0 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2016 |
| Publisher: | Soho Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $26.95 |
Book Description:
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A novel of passion and ambition based on the life of one of the most controversial scientists - and mothers - of the 20th century. Rosalie Rayner and her husband John Watson conducted experiments on hundreds of babies to prove behaviourist principles of nurture over nature. With Behave, Andromeda Romano-Lax offers a fictional biography of Rosalie, a woman whose lab work is now widely repudiated but who in her time was at the cutting edge of parenting psychology. Both moving and...
More DescriptionA novel of passion and ambition based on the life of one of the most controversial scientists - and mothers - of the 20th century. Rosalie Rayner and her husband John Watson conducted experiments on hundreds of babies to prove behaviourist principles of nurture over nature. With Behave, Andromeda Romano-Lax offers a fictional biography of Rosalie, a woman whose lab work is now widely repudiated but who in her time was at the cutting edge of parenting psychology. Both moving and horrifying, Behave is a thought-provoking and compelling novel about the meaning of motherhood.