TY - BOOK ID - 80833441 TI - How Mothers Shaped Successful Sons and Created World History : The School of Infancy PY - 2014 SN - 9780773445567 0773445560 9780773400788 0773400788 PB - Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, DB - UniCat KW - Social service -- Great Britain. KW - Social service. KW - Social work. KW - Mothers and sons KW - Successful people KW - History KW - Sociology & Social History KW - Social Sciences KW - Family & Marriage KW - Annals KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - Achievers KW - High achievers KW - Persons KW - Sons and mothers KW - Mother and child KW - Sons KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80833441 AB - This is the first book to address the urgency of a mother's desire to convey to her child what matters most to her and in particular to her son. It is by this vehicle of cultural transmission that women have principally acted in history to convey to their sons the legacy of their cultural experience.In tracing the cultural formation of sons by their mothers, this book opens a window on the intergenerational transmission of culture. ER -