Making Sense of Parenthood: Caring, Gender and Family Lives

ISBN-13: 9781107104136 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 194 str.

Tina Miller

Opis

Traces and theorises the processes of caring, paid work and 'gatekeeping' as parents negotiate these intensified and gendered domains.

Recenzje

'Can a primary caring responsibility be equally shared between mothers and fathers? This is the central question addressed by Miller in her engaging and perceptive study of sixteen middle-income, dual-earner families. A longer term follow up to her earlier research, in this volume, Miller traces how the responsibility for orchestrating the care of children falls to mothers, and how, over time, this pattern becomes etched into the very fabric of family life. It is a study that gets to the heart of gendered practices of parenthood.' Bren Neale, University of Leeds

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Parenthoods: setting the contemporary context; 2. Caring landscapes and gendered practices; 3. Fathering, caring and work: parenting school aged children; 4. Mothering: caring, work and teenage children; 5. Parenting separately?: post-separation experiences; 6. Unfolding relationships: taking a longer view of moral orientations, mental work and gender in family care and work; 7. Conclusions and reflections; References.