Paths to Parenthood [electronic resource] : Emotions on the Journey through Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Early Parenting /
Kokanović, Renata.editor.
Michaels, Paula A.editor.
Johnston-Ataata, Kate.editor.
This interdisciplinary book explores the affective dimensions of becoming a parent, traversing the life-cycle journey of pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenting. Bringing together researchers from sociology, history, feminist studies, cultural studies, general medicine, and psychiatry, Paths to Parenthood analyses rich narratives that represent a diverse cross-section of parents, including migrants, same-sex couples, and single parents.
Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: The complex and contradictory emotional paths to parenthood -- Part I: Journeys into pregnancy and childbirth -- Chapter 2: Postnatural families: Refiguring intimacy through assisted reproduction -- Chapter 3: Embodying pregnancy and self-surveillance -- Chapter 4: Pain and suffering in labour and birth -- Part II: Journeys into early parenthood -- Chapter 5: Same-sex attracted parents’ emotional transitions to parenthood -- Chapter 6: The turbulent emotions of early parenthood -- Chapter 7: ‘What have I done?’: An exploration of the ambivalent, unimaginable emotions of new motherhood -- Chapter 8: Narrating and disrupting postnatal depression -- Chapter 9: ‘One of the most vulnerable times in your life’: Expectations and emotional experiences of support in the early postnatal period -- Chapter 10: Labour after labour: Negotiating caring for children and paid work -- Appendix 1: Emotional Experiences of Early Parenthood in Australian Families Project: Participant demographic characteristics -- Index.
This interdisciplinary book explores the affective dimensions of becoming a parent, traversing the life-cycle journey of pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenting. Bringing together researchers from sociology, history, feminist studies, cultural studies, general medicine, and psychiatry, Paths to Parenthood analyses rich narratives that represent a diverse cross-section of parents, including migrants, same-sex couples, and single parents.
Social medicine.
Sociology.
Anthropology.
Medical Sociology.
Gender Studies.
Family.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Anthropology.