Parenting in Global Perspective: Negotiating Ideologies of Kinship, Self and Politics

ISBN-13: 9780415624879 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 18 str.

Charlotte Faircloth; Diane Hoffman; Linda Layne

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Drawing on both sociological and anthropological perspectives, this volume explores cross-national trends and everyday experiences of parenting .

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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.

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Foreword  Frank Furedi  Introduction  Charlotte Faircloth, Diane Hoffman and Linda Layne  Part 1: The Moral Context for Parenting  1. ‘Where Are the Parents?’: Changing Parenting Responsibilities Between the 1960s and the 2010s  Rosalind Edwards and Val Gillies  2. Building a Stable Environment in Scotland: Planning Parenthood in a Time of Ecological Crisis  Katharine Dow  3. Creating Distinction: Middle-Class Viewers of Supernanny in the UK  Tracey Jensen  4. 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  Part 2: Power and Inequality: the Structural Constraints to ‘Good’ Parenting  5. Problem Parents? Undocumented Migrants in America’s New South and the Power Dynamics of Parenting Advice  Nicole Berry  6. Nurturing Sudanese, Producing Americans: Refugee Parents and Personhood  Anna Jaysane-Darr  Part 3: Negotiating Parenting Culture  7. ‘Intensive Motherhood’ in Comparative Perspective: Feminism, Full-term Breastfeeding and Attachment Parenting in London and Paris  Charlotte Faircloth  8. Intensive Mothering of Ethiopian Adoptive Children in Flanders, Belgium Katrien De Graeve and Chia Longman  9. ‘Staying With the Baby’: Intensive Mothering and Social Mobility in Santiago de Chile  Marjorie Murray  Part 4: Parenting and/as Identity  10. "Spanish People Don’t Know How to Rear their Children!" Dominican Women’s Resistance to Intensive Mothering in Madrid  Livia Jiménez  11. Becoming a Mother Through Postpartum Depression: Narratives from Brazil  Maureen O’Dougherty  12. Sacrificial Mothering of IVF-pursuing Mothers in Turkey  A. Merve Göknar  13. Intensive Parenting Alone: Negotiating the Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood as a Single Mother by Choice  Linda Layne  14. Power Struggles: The Paradoxes of Emotion and Control Among Child-Centred Mothers in Privileged America  Diane Hoffman Afterword  Ellie Lee