Faircloth, Charlotte;
(2021)
Couples’ Transitions to Parenthood: Gender, Intimacy and Equality.
Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, Switzerland.
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Abstract
This chapter sets out the rationale for the study, arguing that new parents are caught in an uncomfortable confluence between two competing discourses: those around ideal relationships and those around ideal parenting. On the one hand, they must be committed to egalitarian ideals about being ‘equal partners’. On the other, they must be parenting ‘intensively’, in ways which are markedly more demanding for mothers, and which makes paternal involvement in particular more complicated. Drawing largely on the narratives of couples who have faced relationship difficulties, the book points to the social pressures at play in raising the next generation at material, physiological and cultural levels. These are explored through concrete practices, linked to physiology by varying degrees: birth, feeding and sleeping, three of the most highly moralised areas of contemporary parenting culture.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Couples’ Transitions to Parenthood: Gender, Intimacy and Equality |
| ISBN: | 3030774031 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-3-030-77402-8 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-77403-5_1 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77403-5_1 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This chapter version is the author accepted manuscript published in: C. Faircloth, "Couples’ Transitions to Parenthood: Gender, Intimacy and Equality", Palgrave Macmillan: Cham 2021, pp. 157. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Parenting, Couples, Gender, Equality, Intimacy |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10136676 |
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