Full Description
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 contexts how men and women make—and break—relations between generations when becoming parents, this volume brings together innovative qualitative research by anthropologists, historians, and sociologists. The chapters focus tightly on inter-generational transmission and demonstrate its importance for understanding how people become parents and rear children.
Contents
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 North-western Amazonia
Elizabeth Rahman
Chapter 8. Generational Change and Continuity amongst 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
