Paths to Parenthood Emotions on the Journey through Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Early Parenting /

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 P...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
Social medicine.
Sociology.
Families.
Families-Social aspects.
Social groups.
Family.
Anthropology.
ISBN:9789811301438
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Table of 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
  • Index.

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