When Couples Become Parents : The Creation of Gender in the Transition to Parenthood /
Examines the ways in which divisions based on gender both evolve and are challenged by heterosexual couples from late pregnancy through early parenthood.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
[2009]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Giving birth : the dynamics of support and agency
- Becoming parents : the challenges of the postpartum period
- Becoming mothers, making fathers : negotiations in the economy of care
- Taking care of the baby : reproducing gender differences and divisions?
- Home making and making family
- Being mothers, being fathers : the costs of privatized responsibility for children
- A new life and changed relationships
- Conclusion.