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.
| ISBN: | 9781785331503 |
| Publication date: | 1st April 2016 |
| Author: | Siân Pooley, Kaveri Qureshi |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 298 pages |
| Series: | Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality |
| Genres: |
Sociology: family and relationships |