First-Time Parenting Journeys
Expectations and Realities
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- Authors:
- Damien W. Riggs, Flinders University of South Australia
- Clare Bartholomaeus, Flinders University of South Australia
- Date Published: March 2023
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- isbn: 9781009084741
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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.
Read more- Illustrates key concepts through detailed narratives in an accessible way
- Combines critique with an examination of people's everyday lives, situating critical theory within a readily understandable social context
- Maps out similarities and changes across time, highlighting the relative stability of social norms
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‘Ever considered the gap between expectations of parenthood and the reality? This book offers insights for readers contemplating parenthood, while giving social scientists and their students glimpses into how feelings absorb social norms into personal family values. Moving, readable, and methodologically rigorous, this book is a rare gem!’ Fiona Tasker, Birkbeck University of London, UK
See more reviews‘Riggs and Bartholomaeus turn the spotlight on the taken-for-granteds of heterosexual parenthood, which goes beyond the usual ‘transition to parenthood’ scholarship. They use innovative theory to investigate the affective dimension of first-time parenthood; and, along with an intergenerational perspective, the book makes a highly novel and thought-provoking contribution to scholarship on kinship and belonging, parenthood and reproductive decision-making.’ Tracy Morison, author of Queer Kinship and Men’s Pathways to Parenthood
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- Date Published: March 2023
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781009084741
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Undertaking a Qualitative Longitudinal research study with intending parents
3. Motherhood moralities
4. Birthing experiences
5. Emotion work in the transition to motherhood
6. Development of a parental identity
7. Views about having more children
8. Changes in the couple relationship over time
9. Grandparents navigating shifts in relationships and identity
10. Reflecting on the study findings and experience.
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