| Contents |
Introduction -- Undertaking a Qualitative Longitudinal Research Study with Intending Parents -- Motherhood Moralities -- Birthing Experiences -- Emotion Work in the Transition to Motherhood -- Development of a Parental Identity -- Views about Having More Children -- Changes in the Couple Relationship over Time -- Grandparents Navigating Shifts in Relationships and Identity -- Reflecting on the Study Findings and Experience. |
| Abstract |
"All too often heterosexual first-time parents are treated as the unmarked norm within research on reproduction. First-Time Parenting Journeys maps out what it means to be situated within the norm, while providing a critical account of how social norms about parenthood shape, regulate, and potentially delimit experiences of new parenthood for heterosexual couples. Based on qualitative longitudinal research, this book tells the story of journeys to parenthood, highlighting the impact of gender norms, moral claims, emotion work, and generativity. While drawing on Australian data, the critical conceptual framework has broader applicability across Western contexts in terms of understanding normative family structures and parenting practices. By focusing on expectations about, and the reality of, new parenthood, it explicates the ways in which institutionalised norms about parenthood are internalised and explores what this can tell us about the broader contours of parenthood discourses"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Biographical note | Damien W. Riggs is Professor of Psychology at Flinders University, Australia. Clare Bartholomaeus is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Flinders University, Australia. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Riggs, Damien W. First-time parenting journeys. Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2023] 9781316513989 |
| ISBN | 9781009076449 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 1009076442 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1009084747 |
| ISBN | 9781009084741 (electronic bk.) |
