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When Couples Become Parents : The Creation of Gender in the Transition to Parenthood / Bonnie Fox.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fox, Bonnie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parenthood.
- Sex role.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (349 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines the ways in which divisions based on gender both evolve and are challenged by heterosexual couples from late pregnancy through early parenthood.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Giving birth : the dynamics of support and agency
- Becoming parents : the challenges of the postpartum period
- Becoming mothers, making fathers : negotiations in the economy of care
- Taking care of the baby : reproducing gender differences and divisions?
- Home making and making family
- Being mothers, being fathers : the costs of privatized responsibility for children
- A new life and changed relationships
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9781442697072
- 1442697075
- 9781442697515
- 1442697512
- OCLC:
- 759157330
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