Description
Book SynopsisAround the globe, the very conceptualization of family is associated with the relationship between a parent and a child. The birth of a child represents both the end of one experience, and the beginning of another. Entry into parenthood represents a fundamental shift in family structure and family dynamics, wherein the child brings new responsibilities within the family and upon the larger society, particularly in regards to population issues.
In order to better understand the transitions into parenthood, this multidisciplinary volume of CPFR will address such topics as: employment and fertility, childbearing desires versus childbearing outcomes, the social media construction of parenthood, gender differences in childrearing, parental discipline and child outcomes, among others. This volume will contain research on parenthood and parenting from around the world, and is intended to provide a more global perspective of these issues. Given that these topics range across various disciplines, a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches are utilized in the research herein.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Putting Gender on Ice: Preserving Motherhood in Media Coverage of Elective Egg and Sperm Freezing;
Ashlyn M. Jaeger Chapter 2. Becoming Mum: Exploring the Emergence and Formulation of a Mothers' Identity during the Transition into Motherhood;
Samantha Reveley Chapter 3. Contextual Influences on Contraception Use among Poor Women in Pakistan;
Hassan Raza Brad van Eeden-Moorefield Soyoung Lee Lisa Lieberman Chapter 4. Doing Becoming a Mother: The Gendering of Parenthood in Birth-Preparation Classes in Germany;
Marion Müller Nicole Zillien Julia Gerstewitz Chapter 5. Midwives in Ontario Hospitals: the Mainstreaming of "Alternative" Childbearing;
Melodie Cardin Chapter 6. The Medicalization of Pregnancy and Childbirth in Contemporary Turkey: The Effect of Risk Discourses for Turkish Women's Experiences;
Zehra Zeynep Sadıkoğlu Chapter 7. Going It Alone: A Multigenerational Investigation of Women's Perceptions of Single Mothers by Choice Versus Circumstance;
Christina L. Scott Siri Wilder Justine Bennett Chapter 8. Building a Family within a Non-Heterosexual Couple: Struggles, Fears, Representations and Practices;
Filomena Santos Rita Dias Chapter 9. A Qualitative Inquiry: Reflections on Pregnancy, Birth, and Transition to Parenthood Experiences of African American Couples with a Toddler Son;
Sheresa Boone Blanchard Tacy Rae LeBaron
