Parenthood between generations : transforming reproductive cultures / edited by Siân Pooley and Kaveri Qureshi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Parenthood between Generations -- Parenthood Between Generations -- Transforming Reproductive Cultures -- Edited by Siân Pooley and Kaveri Qureshi -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Siân Pooley and Kaveri Qureshi -- Chapter 1 -- Between Future Families and Families of Origin -- Talking about Gay Parenthood across Generations -- Robert Pralat -- Chapter 2 -- The Politics of Fertility and Generation in Buganda, East Africa, 1860-1980 -- Shane Doyle -- Chapter 3 -- Changing Mothering Practices and Intergenerational Relations in Contemporary Urban China -- Michala Hvidt Breengaard -- Chapter 4 -- Intergenerational Negotiations of Non-marital Pregnancies in Contemporary Japan -- Ekaterina Hertog -- Chapter 5 -- Grandfathers, Grandmothers and the Inheritance of Parenthood in England, c. 1850-1914 -- Siân Pooley -- Chapter 6 -- First-time Parenthood among Migrant Pakistanis -- Gender and Generation in the Postpartum Period -- Kaveri Qureshi -- Chapter 7 -- Intergenerational Mythscapes and Infant Care in Northwestern Amazonia -- Elizabeth Rahman -- Chapter 8 -- Generational Change and Continuity among British Mothers -- The Sharing of Beliefs, Knowledge and Practices c. 1940-1990 -- Angela Davis -- Chapter 9 -- 'I Feel My Dad Every Moment!' -- Memory, Emotion and Embodiment in British South Asian Fathering Practices -- Punita Chowbey and Sarah Salway -- Chapter 10 -- Becoming Papa -- Kinship, Senescence and the Ambivalent Inward Journeys of Ageing Men in the Antilles -- Adom Philogene Heron -- Conclusion -- Siân Pooley and Kaveri Qureshi -- Index.

Recent literature has identified modern "parenting" as an expert-led practice-one which begins with pre-pregnancy decisions, entails distinct types of intimate relationships, places intense burdens on mothers and increasingly on fathers too. Exploring within diverse historical and global contexts how men and women make-and break-relations between generations when becoming parents, this volume brings together innovative qualitative research by anthropologists, historians, and sociologists. The chapters focus tightly on inter-generational transmission and demonstrate its importance for understanding how people become parents and rear children

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