First-time parenting journeys: expectations and realities

All too often heterosexual first-time parents are treated as the unmarked norm within research on reproduction. First-Time Parenting Journeys maps out what it means to be situated within the norm, while providing a critical account of how social norms about parenthood shape, regulate, and potentiall...

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Main Authors: Riggs, Damien W. (Author), Bartholomaeus, Clare (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 2023
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Summary:All too often heterosexual first-time parents are treated as the unmarked norm within research on reproduction. First-Time Parenting Journeys maps out what it means to be situated within the norm, while providing a critical account of how social norms about parenthood shape, regulate, and potentially delimit experiences of new parenthood for heterosexual couples. Based on qualitative longitudinal research, this book tells the story of journeys to parenthood, highlighting the impact of gender norms, moral claims, emotion work, and generativity. While drawing on Australian data, the critical conceptual framework has broader applicability across Western contexts in terms of understanding normative family structures and parenting practices. By focusing on expectations about, and the reality of, new parenthood, it explicates the ways in which institutionalised norms about parenthood are internalised and explores what this can tell us about the broader contours of parenthood discourses
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Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 215 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009076449
DOI:10.1017/9781009076449

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