Childbearing and the Changing Nature of Parenthood: The Contexts, Actors, and Experiences of Having Children

Author:   Rosalina Pisco Costa (Universidade de Évora, Portugal) ,  Sampson Lee Blair (The State University of New York, USA)
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Volume:   14
ISBN:  

9781838670672


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   25 November 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Childbearing and the Changing Nature of Parenthood: The Contexts, Actors, and Experiences of Having Children


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Around 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.

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Author:   Rosalina Pisco Costa (Universidade de Évora, Portugal) ,  Sampson Lee Blair (The State University of New York, USA)
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Volume:   14
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9781838670672


ISBN 10:   183867067
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   25 November 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Chapter 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

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Rosalina Pisco Costa is assistant professor at the Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of Évora (Portugal) and integrated researcher with CICS.NOVA.UÉvora - The Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences. She has a PhD in Sociology, and a master's degree specialization in Family and Population studies. She works mainly in the Sociology of the Family, Childhood, Everyday Life and Consumption Studies, while crosswise exploring different Social Research Methodologies.  Dr. Sampson Lee Blair is a family sociologist at The State University of New York (Buffalo). His research focuses upon parent-child relationships, with particular emphasis on child and adolescent development. As a Fulbright Scholar Award recipient (2010), he studied parental involvement and children's educational attainment in the Philippines. Most recently, he was elected as Vice-President (North America) of the Research Committee on Youth in the International Sociological Association.

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