When Couples Become Parents : The Creation of Gender in the Transition to Parenthood /

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Examines the ways in which divisions based on gender both evolve and are challenged by heterosexual couples from late pregnancy through early parenthood.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fox, Bonnie, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2009]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sexual division of labor.
Sex role.
Parenthood > Social aspects.
Parenthood.
Motherhood.
Fatherhood.
Families.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
maternity.
sex role.
Familles.
Maternite.
Paternite.
Condition de parents > Aspect social.
Rôle selon le sexe.
Condition de parents.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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