Couples' Transitions to Parenthood: Gender, Intimacy and Equality 2021 Edition Contributor(s): Faircloth, Charlotte (Author) |
|
ISBN: 3030774023 ISBN-13: 9783030774028 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $132.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Marriage & Family - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy - Social Science | Gender Studies |
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.80 lbs) 157 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 sleeping--three of the most highly moralised areas of contemporary parenting culture. |