Parenthood between generations : : transforming reproductive cultures /

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

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 c...

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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.
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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

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