Parenthood between generations transforming reproductive cultures

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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pooley Siân (Editor), Qureshi, Kaveri (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Berghahn Books [2016], 2016
Series:Fertility, reproduction and sexuality
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Parenthood between Generations
  • Parenthood Between Generations
  • Transforming Reproductive Cultures
  • Edited by Siân Pooley and Kaveri Qureshi
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Siân Pooley and Kaveri Qureshi
  • Chapter 1
  • Between Future Families and Families of Origin
  • Talking about Gay Parenthood across Generations
  • Robert Pralat
  • Chapter 2
  • The Politics of Fertility and Generation in Buganda, East Africa, 1860-1980
  • Shane Doyle
  • Chapter 3
  • Changing Mothering Practices and Intergenerational Relations in Contemporary Urban China
  • Michala Hvidt Breengaard
  • Chapter 4
  • Intergenerational Negotiations of Non-marital Pregnancies in Contemporary Japan
  • Ekaterina Hertog
  • Chapter 5
  • Grandfathers, Grandmothers and the Inheritance of Parenthood in England, c. 1850-1914
  • Siân Pooley
  • Chapter 6
  • First-time Parenthood among Migrant Pakistanis
  • Gender and Generation in the Postpartum Period
  • Kaveri Qureshi
  • Chapter 7
  • Intergenerational Mythscapes and Infant Care in Northwestern Amazonia
  • Elizabeth Rahman
  • Chapter 8
  • Generational Change and Continuity among British Mothers
  • The Sharing of Beliefs, Knowledge and Practices c. 1940-1990
  • Angela Davis
  • Chapter 9
  • 'I Feel My Dad Every Moment!'
  • Memory, Emotion and Embodiment in British South Asian Fathering Practices
  • Punita Chowbey and Sarah Salway
  • Chapter 10
  • Becoming Papa
  • Kinship, Senescence and the Ambivalent Inward Journeys of Ageing Men in the Antilles
  • Adom Philogene Heron
  • Conclusion
  • Siân Pooley and Kaveri Qureshi
  • Index