Couples' transitions to parenthood : gender, intimacy and equality / / Charlotte Faircloth
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| Autore: |
Faircloth Charlotte
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| Titolo: |
Couples' transitions to parenthood : gender, intimacy and equality / / Charlotte Faircloth
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| Pubblicazione: | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021] |
| ©2021 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (164 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 649.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Parenting |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Relationships End, But Children Are 'Forever' -- Overview -- Vignette 1: Anthony and Claudia -- References -- Part I: Context -- Introduction to Part I -- References -- Chapter 2: Theoretical Context -- Couple Relationships and Ideals of Equality -- Contemporary Parenting Culture -- Motherhood and Moralisation -- Different Performances of the Cultural Script -- Gender -- Class -- Cultural Variation -- Children at Risk -- The Many Methods of Raising Children Intensively -- Parenting, Gender and the State -- So What Does Equality Mean in Practice? -- Parenting Between Ideal and Reality -- References -- Chapter 3: Political and Methodological Context -- Political Context -- Methodology -- Introducing the Couples -- Vignette 2: Laura and James -- References -- References -- Part II: Practice -- Birth, Eating and Sleeping -- References -- Chapter 4: Birth -- Birth as an Analytical Object -- Great Expectations -- ...Shattered -- Birth Stories, Identity Work and Relationships -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Feeding -- Infant Feeding and Moralisation -- Physicality and Embodiment of Intensive Parenting -- Material Barriers to 'Equal' Parenting -- Rethinking Gender Roles: Gay Couples and Parenting Culture -- Breastfeeding, Relationship Deadlock and the Impossibility of 'Support' -- References -- Chapter 6: Sleeping -- Thinking About Sleep -- The Sleep Diaries -- Taking Turns -- Intimacy and Sex -- Intimacy and Inequality: Embodying Difference -- Mutual Understanding -- Less Equality, Less Intimacy? -- Equality, Individualism and Intimacy -- Conclusions -- Vignette 3: Ellen and Max -- References -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- Equality and Intimacy: Uncomfortable Bedfellows? -- Iterations of Equality -- Equality as Sharing the Worry?. |
| The Quality of Quality Time -- Family Life and a Relational Perspective -- Equality and Individualism -- Conclusion: Escaping the 'Parent Trap'? -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index. | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Couples' Transitions to Parenthood |
| ISBN: | 3-030-77403-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910492150903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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