@article{1438312,
      recid = {1438312},
      author = {Faircloth, Charlotte.},
      title = {Couples' transitions to parenthood : gender, intimacy and  equality /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      note = {Includes indexes.},
      abstract = {This book argues that new parents are caught in an  uncomfortable crossfire between two competing discourses:  those around ideal relationships and those around ideal  parenting. The author suggests that parents are pressured  to be equal partners while also being asked to parent their  children intensively, in ways markedly more demanding of  mothers. Reconciling these ideals has the potential to  create resentment and disappointment. Drawing on research  with couples in London as they became parents, the book  points to the social pressures at play in raising the next  generation at material, physiological and cultural levels.  Chapters explore these levels through concrete practices:  birth, feeding and sleepingthree of the most highly  moralised areas of contemporary parenting culture.  Charlotte Faircloth is Associate Professor of Social  Science in the UCL Social Research Institute, UK. Her work  focuses on parenting, gender and reproduction using  qualitative and cross-cultural methodologies from  sociological and anthropological perspectives. Her research  has explored infant feeding, couple relationships,  intergenerational relations and the impact of COVID-19 on  family life.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1438312},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77403-5},
}