Couples' transitions to parenthood : gender, intimacy and equality / Charlotte Faircloth.
Faircloth, Charlotte.
2021
HQ755.8
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Title Couples' transitions to parenthood : gender, intimacy and equality / Charlotte Faircloth.
Author Faircloth, Charlotte.
ISBN 9783030774035 (electronic bk.)
3030774031 (electronic bk.)
3030774023
9783030774028
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77403-5
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-77403-5 doi
Call Number HQ755.8
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.874
Summary 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.
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1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Context
3. Political and Methodological Context
4. Birth
5. Feeding
6. Sleeping
7. Conclusion.

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