Research Catalog

Title

Parenting in global perspective : negotiating ideologies of kinship, self and politics / edited by Charlotte Faircloth, Diane Hoffman and Linda Layne.

Publication

London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Faircloth, Charlotte.
• Hoffman, Diane M., 1954-
• Layne, Linda L.

Description

xvii, 255 p. : ill.; 24 cm

Summary

"Drawing on both sociological and anthropological perspectives, this volume explores cross-national trends and everyday experiences of 'parenting'. Parenting in Global Perspective examines the significance of 'parenting' as a subject of professional expertise, and activity in which adults are increasingly expected to be emotionally absorbed and become personally fulfilled. By focusing the significance of parenting as a form of relationship and as mediated by family relationships across time and space, the book explores the points of accommodation and points of tension between parenting as defined by professionals, and those experienced by parents themselves. Specific themes include: the ways in which the moral context for parenting is negotiated and sustained ; the structural constraints to 'good' parenting (particularly in cases of immigration or reproductive technologies) ; the relationship between intimate family life and broader cultural trends, parenting culture, policy making and nationhood ; parenting and/as adult 'identity-work'. Including contributions on parenting from a range of ethnographic locales - from Europe, Canada and the US, to non-Euro-American settings such as Turkey, Chile and Brazil, this volume presents a uniquely critical and international perspective, which positions parenting as a global ideology that intersects in a variety of ways with the political, social, cultural, and economic positions of parents and families."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

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Uniform Title

Relationships and resources.

Subject

• Parenting > Cross-cultural studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Charlotte Faircloth, Diane Hoffman and Linda Layne -- The moral context for parenting: 'Where are the parents?' : Changing parenting responsibilities between the 1960s and the 2010s / Rosalind Edwards and Val Gillies. Building a stable environment in Scotland : planning parenthood in a time of ecological crisis / Katharine Dow. Creating distinction : middle-class viewers of supernanny in the UK / Tracey Jensen. Negotiating (un)healthy lifestyles in an era of 'intensive' parenting : ethnographic case studies from north west England, UK / Denise Hinton, Louise Laverty and Jude Robinson -- Power and inequality : the structural constraints to 'good' parenting: Problem parents? : undocumented migrants in America's New South and the power dynamics of parenting advice / Nicole Berry. Nurturing Sudanese, producing Americans : refugee parents and personhood / Anna Jaysane-Darr -- Negotiating parenting culture: 'Intensive motherhood' in comparative perspective : feminism, full-term breastfeeding and attachment parenting in London and Paris / Charlotte Faircloth. Intensive mothering of Ethiopian adoptive children in Flanders, Belgium / Katrien De Graeve and Chia Longman. 'Staying with the baby' : intensive mothering and social mobility in Santiago de Chile / Marjorie Murray -- Parenting and/as identity: "Spanish people don't know how to rear their children!" : Dominican women's resistance to intensive mothering in Madrid / Livia Jiménez. Becoming a mother through postpartum depression : narratives from Brazil / Maureen O'Dougherty. Sacrificial mothering of IVF-pursuing mothers in Turkey / A. Merve Göknar. Intensive parenting alone : negotiating the cultural contradictions of motherhood as a single mother by choice / Linda Layne. Power struggles : the paradoxes of emotion and control among child-centered mothers in privileged America / Diane Hoffman -- Afterword / Ellie Lee.

Call Number

JFE 15-6824

ISBN

• 9780415624879 (hbk.)
• 0415624878 (hbk.)
• 9780203103906 (pbk.)
• 0203103904 (pbk.)

LCCN

• 2012040235
• 40022242246

OCLC

794041194

Title

Parenting in global perspective : negotiating ideologies of kinship, self and politics / edited by Charlotte Faircloth, Diane Hoffman and Linda Layne.

Imprint

London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Relationships & resources

Relationships and resources.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Faircloth, Charlotte.

Hoffman, Diane M., 1954-

Layne, Linda L.

Other Standard Identifier

40022242246

Research Call Number

JFE 15-6824