Research Catalog

When couples become parents : the creation of gender in the transition to parenthood

Title
When couples become parents : the creation of gender in the transition to parenthood / Bonnie Fox.
Author
Fox, Bonnie, 1948-
Publication
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2009.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
Request for On-site UseRequest Scan
Not available - Please for assistance.
TextUse in library HQ755.8 .F69 2009Off-site

Details

Description
xiv, 334 pages; 23 cm
Subject
  • Parenthood
  • Sex role
  • Parenthood > Social aspects
  • Sexual division of labor
  • Fatherhood
  • Motherhood
  • Families
  • Nuclear families
  • sex role
  • maternity
  • Nuclear families
  • Families
  • Fatherhood
  • Motherhood
  • Parenthood
  • Parenthood > Social aspects
  • Sex role
  • Sexual division of labor
  • Föräldraskap > sociala aspekter
  • Familjesociologi
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-320) and indexes.
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.
ISBN
  • 0802091830
  • 9780802091833
  • 0802091849
  • 9780802091840
LCCN
2010290896
OCLC
  • ocn434559258
  • 434559258
  • SCSB-14691571
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library