Parenthood between generations : : transforming reproductive cultures / / edited by Siân Pooley and Kaveri Qureshi.

• Superior document: Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; 32
• TeilnehmendeR: Pooley, Siân,; Qureshi, Kaveri,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books,, 2016.; [New York, NY ;, Oxford] : : [Berghahn Books],, 2019.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016; 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 290 pages) :; illustrations; digital file(s).
• Notes: "Open access ebook edition published in 2019" -- title page verso.

Recent literature has identified modern "parenting" as an expert-led practice-one which begins with pre-pregnancy decisions, entails distinct types of intimate relationships, places intense burdens on mothers and increasingly on fathers too. Exploring within diverse historical and global contexts how men and women make-and break-relations between generations when becoming parents, this volume brings together innovative qualitative research by anthropologists, historians, and sociologists. The chapters focus tightly on inter-generational transmission and demonstrate its importance for understanding how people become parents and rear children.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Between Future Families and Families of Origin: Talking about Gay Parenthood across Generations -- Chapter 2 The Politics of Fertility and Generation in Buganda, East Africa, 1860-1980 -- Chapter 3 Changing Mothering Practices and Intergenerational Relations in Contemporary Urban China -- Chapter 4 Intergenerational Negotiations of Non-marital Pregnancies in Contemporary Japan -- Chapter 5 Grandfathers, Grandmothers and the Inheritance of Parenthood in England, c. 1850-1914 -- Chapter 6 First-time Parenthood among Migrant Pakistanis: Gender and Generation in the Postpartum Period -- Chapter 7 Intergenerational Mythscapes and Infant Care in Northwestern Amazonia -- Chapter 8 Generational Change and Continuity among British Mothers: The Sharing of Beliefs, Knowledge and Practices c. 1940-1990 -- Chapter 9 'I Feel My Dad Every Moment!' Memory, Emotion and Embodiment in British South Asian Fathering Practices -- Chapter 10 Becoming Papa: Kinship, Senescence and the Ambivalent Inward Journeys of Ageing Men in the Antilles -- Conclusion -- Index