Research Catalog

Title

Gender and parenthood : biological and social scientific perspectives / edited by W. Bradford Wilcox and Kathleen Kovner Kline.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wilcox, William Bradford, 1970-
• Kline, Kathleen Kovner.

Description

vi, 363 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

The essays in this collection deploy biological and social scientific perspectives to evaluate the transformative experience of parenthood for today's women and men. They map the similar and distinct roles mothers and fathers play in their children's lives and measure the effect of gendered parenting on child well-being, work and family arrangements, and the quality of couples' relationships. Contributors describe what happens to brains and bodies when women become mothers and men become fathers; whether the stakes are the same or different for each sex; why, across history and cultures, women are typically more involved in childcare than men; why some fathers are strongly present in their children's lives while others are not; and how the various commitments men and women make to parenting shape their approaches to paid work and romantic relationships. Considering recent changes in men's and women's familial duties, the growing number of single-parent families, and the impassioned tenor of same-sex marriage debates, this book adds sound scientific and theoretical insight to these issues, constituting a standout resource for those interested in the causes and consequences of contemporary gendered parenthood.

Subject

• Parenthood
• Sex role
• Parent and child
• Husband and wife
• Biologie
• Eltern
• Elternverhalten
• Erziehung
• Geschlecht
• Geschlechterrolle
• Kind
• Sozialpsychologie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Introduction / W. Bradford Wilcox and Kathy Kovner Kline -- How and why is parenthood gendered? -- The dynamic nature of the parental brain / Kelly G. Lambert and Catherine L. Franssen -- Family life and infant care : lessons from cooperatively breeding primates / Charles T. Snowdon -- Human parenting from an evolutionary perspective / David F. Bjorklund and Ashley C. King -- Parenting x gender x culture x time / Marc H. Bornstein -- Gender differences and similarities in parental behavior / Ross D. Parke -- Gender and parenting across the family life cycle / Ayelete Talmi -- Implications for children, couples, and families -- Essential elements of the caretaking crucible / Kathy Kovner Kline and Brian Stafford -- Gendered parenting's developmental implications for children / Rob Palkovitz -- Do fathers uniquely matter for adolescent well-being? / David J. Eggebeen -- No one best way : work-family strategies, the gendered division of parenting, and the contemporary marriages of mothers and fathers / W. Bradford Wilcox and Jeffrey Dew -- The effect of gender-based parental influences on raising children : the impact on couples' relationship / Scott Haltzman -- Single mothers raising children without fathers : implications for rearing children with male-positive attitudes / William Doherty and Shonda Craft -- List of contributors -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 15-2713

ISBN

• 9780231160681 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 0231160682 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780231160698 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0231160690 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780231530972 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2012039624
• 40021910599

OCLC

795010165

Title

Gender and parenthood : biological and social scientific perspectives / edited by W. Bradford Wilcox and Kathleen Kovner Kline.

Publisher

New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Wilcox, William Bradford, 1970-

Kline, Kathleen Kovner.

Other Standard Identifier

40021910599

Research Call Number

JFE 15-2713