Overview
- Draws together researchers from sociology, history, psychiatry, cultural studies, and clinical practice, intervening in unique ways in the scholarly conversation on the emotional experience of becoming a parent
- Offers an uncommonly cohesive look at topics that are rarely explored collectively and from an interdisciplinary perspective
- Bridges existing scholarship by exploring transition from pregnancy to parenthood as a process
- Distinctive in that each author draws on a shared set of narrative interviews with a diverse group of new parents
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Journeys into Pregnancy and Childbirth
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Journeys into Early Parenthood
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Reviews
“This edited collection is important reading. Based on interviews with new parents, the stories it tells belie idealised images of early parenthood. Interviewees report attempts to accommodate a new identity within changing relationships with partners, wider families and friends. Paths to Parenthood makes a significant contribution to contemporary social science and health care.” (Dr. Kerreen Reiger, author of Our Bodies, Our Babies: The Forgotten Women’s Movement)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Paula A. Michaels is Associate Professor of History at Monash University. She is the author of two prize-winning books: Lamaze: An International History (2014) and Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin’s Central Asia (2003). Focusing on the intersection of medical and political history, her work has been supported by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council for Learned Societies, and the Social Science Research Council.
Kate Johnston-Ataata (Editorial Associate) is a Research Fellow in Sociology at RMIT University, Healthtalk Australia Coordinator, and was lead researcher on the project underpinning this book. Dr Johnston-Ataata’s research interests include the relational context of individual health and illness experiences, women’s health, and the social, cultural and emotional dimensions of life-course transitions in late modernity.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Paths to Parenthood
Book Subtitle: Emotions on the Journey through Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Early Parenting
Editors: Renata Kokanović, Paula A. Michaels, Kate Johnston-Ataata
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0143-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-0142-1Published: 14 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4339-1Published: 29 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-0143-8Published: 21 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 254
Topics: Medical Sociology, Gender Studies, Family, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Anthropology