Grandparenting practices around the world /

This exciting collection presents an in-depth, up-to-date analysis of the unprecedented phenomenon of increasing numbers of grandparents worldwide, co-existing and interacting for longer periods of time with their grandchildren.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Timonen, Virpi (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2019.
Colección:Policy Press scholarship online.
Temas:
Grandparenting.
Grandparenting > Social aspects.
Rôle grand-parental.
Rôle grand-parental > Aspect social.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Grandparenting
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • GRANDPARENTING PRACTICES AROUND THE WORLD
  • Contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • List of abbreviations
  • Notes on contributors
  • 1. Introduction: widening the lens on grandparenting
  • Introduction
  • Demographic contexts of grandparenting
  • Welfare state and cultural contexts of grandparenting
  • Socioeconomic development and transnational grandparenting
  • Gender, family status and intersectionalities
  • Grandparental roles, agency and influence
  • Conclusion
  • PART 1. The demographic and welfare-state contexts of grandparenting
  • 2. The demography of grandparenthood in 16 European countries and two North American countries
  • Introduction
  • The demographic context of grandparenthood
  • The length of grandparenthood
  • Labour-force participation and health of grandparents
  • The future of the demography of grandparenthood
  • Other factors influencing intergenerational relationships
  • Conclusions
  • 3. Grandparental childcare: a reconceptualisation of family policy regimes
  • Introduction
  • Family policy regime analysis
  • Policy logics in a two-generational perspective
  • Explanatory potential
  • Conclusions
  • PART 2. Grandparenting in contexts of economic and societal development
  • 4. Grandparenting in developing South East Asia: comparative perspectives from Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam
  • Introduction
  • Country settings
  • Data and methods
  • Results
  • Conclusions
  • 5. Second-parenthood realities, third-age ideals: (grand)parenthood in the context of poverty and HIV/AIDS
  • Introduction
  • Background
  • Dichotomous discourses
  • Contemporary lived experiences of grandmothers
  • Conclusion
  • PART 3. Transnational grandparenting
  • 6. Transnational grandparenting: the intersection of transnationalism and translocality
  • Introduction.
  • The intersection of transnationalism and translocality: towards a broader conceptual framework
  • The study
  • Intergenerational love in the context of the 'care deficit'
  • Intergenerational families in the context of border control
  • Generational reciprocity in the context of cultural rupture
  • Discussion and conclusion
  • 7. Transnational grandmother-grandchild relationships in the context of migration from Lithuania to Ireland
  • Introduction
  • Context of the study
  • Research methods
  • Changing nature of grandmother-grandchild relationships
  • Practices of 'keeping in touch'
  • Multiple factors shaping grandmother-grandchild relationships
  • Discussion and conclusions
  • PART 4. Gender, intersectionalities and grandparenting
  • 8. The composition of grandparent childcare: gendered patterns in cross-national perspective
  • Introduction
  • Composition of childcare
  • Care contexts
  • Data and method
  • Results
  • Discussion and conclusion
  • 9. Class-based grandfathering practices in Finland
  • Introduction
  • Contemporary dynamics of grandfathering
  • Materials and methods
  • Classless but gendered pride: grandfathering with small children
  • Class-based functions of grandfathering
  • Class-based lives and practices with grown-up grandchildren
  • Discussion and conclusions
  • 10. Grandfamilies in the United States: an intersectional analysis
  • Social identities of grandparents raising grandchildren
  • Intersectionality
  • Implications and conclusion
  • PART 5. Grandparental roles, agency and influence
  • 11. How grandparents influence the religiosity of their grandchildren: a mixed-methods study of three-generation families in the United States
  • Introduction
  • Background
  • Theoretical framework
  • Method
  • Quantitative analysis of survey data
  • Qualitative analysis of interview data
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion.
  • 12. Can Chinese grandparents say no? A comparison of grandmothers in two Asian cities
  • Introduction
  • Grandmothers as active agents
  • Chinese grandmothers in two Asian cities
  • Methods
  • Findings
  • Grandmothers' agency within Chinese cultural obligation
  • Intergenerational reciprocity re-examined
  • "I am not that type of grandmother": (non)compliance with the grandmother archetype among contemporary Czech 13. 13. grandmothers
  • Introduction
  • The Grandmother phenomenon: the author, the book and the story
  • The readership: appraisal and critique
  • The Grandmother as a cultural phenomenon
  • The lived phenomenon: the Grandmother in contemporary grandparenting identity
  • Conclusions
  • Conclusions: the grandparents' century?
  • Index.

Ejemplares similares