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

Cover
Title Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on
contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: The moral context for parenting
	1 ‘Where are the parents?’: Changing parenting responsibilities between the 1960s and the 2010s
	2 Building a stable environment in Scotland: planning parenthood in a time of ecological crisis
	3 Creating distinction: middle-class viewers of Supernanny in the UK
Part II: The structural constraints to ‘good’ parenting
	4 Negotiating (un)healthy lifestyles in an era of ‘intensive’ parenting: ethnographic case studies from north-west England, UK
	5 Problem parents? Undocumented migrants in America’s New South and the power dynamics of parenting advice
	6 Nurturing Sudanese, producing Americans: refugee parents and personhood
Part III: Negotiating parenting culture
	7 ‘Intensive motherhood’ in comparative perspective: feminism, full-term breastfeeding and attachment parenting in London and Paris
	8 Intensive mothering of Ethiopian adoptive children in Flanders, Belgium
	9 ‘Staying with the baby’: intensive mothering and social mobility in Santiago de Chile
Part IV: Parenting and/as identity
	10 “Spanish people don’t know how to rear their children!” Dominican women’s resistance to intensive mothering in Madrid
	11 Becoming a mother through postpartum depression: narratives from Brazil
	12 Sacrificial mothering of IVF-pursuing mothers in Turkey
	13 Intensive parenting alone: negotiating the cultural contradictions of motherhood as a single mother by choice
	14 Power struggles: the paradoxes of emotion and control among child-centered mothers in privileged America
Afterword
Index