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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.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Fox, Bonnie, 1948-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2009]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.