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Paths to Parenthood Emotions on the Journey through Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Early Parenting
Title
Paths to Parenthood [electronic resource] : Emotions on the Journey through Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Early Parenting / edited by Renata Kokanović, Paula A. Michaels, Kate Johnston-Ataata.
ISBN
9789811301438
Publication
Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource (XIII, 254 p.)
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Summary
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.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 07, 2018
Contents
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
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