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Against the Grain : Couples, Gender, and the Reframing of Parenting / Gillian Ranson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781442687028
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.8740971
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Setting the Scene -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Establishing the Context -- Chapter 2. The Study -- Part II. Getting Started: Caring for Children in the Preschool Years -- Introduction -- Chapter 3. The “Crossovers”: Breadwinner Mothers with Partners at Home -- Chapter 4. “Shift-Workers” and “Dual-Dividers”: Sharing Earning, Sharing Caring -- Part III. The Longer View: Couples with School-Age Children -- Introduction -- Chapter 5. Challenges on the Path to Change -- Chapter 6. Parents as Peers -- Part IV. Review and Reflection -- Introduction -- Chapter 7. Parenting and the Undoing of Gender -- Appendix. The Study Participants -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: Drawing on findings from interviews done with 32 families living in cities across Canada, Ranson challenges dominant understandings of mothering and fathering by looking closely at how couples who have opted for less traditional divisions of labour negotiate their parental and household responsibilities. Included are interviews with breadwinner mothers and caregiver fathers, and with dual-earner couples, both heterosexual and same-sex, who struggle to share equally in the nurture and support of their families. A central claim of the book is that, to the extent that both parents are equally involved in hands-on caregiving, they tend to become, over time, functionally interchangeable and move away from "mothering" and "fathering," and toward parenting. Against the Grain offers us an excellent opportunity to examine how social change happens at the forefront of family life.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Setting the Scene -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Establishing the Context -- Chapter 2. The Study -- Part II. Getting Started: Caring for Children in the Preschool Years -- Introduction -- Chapter 3. The “Crossovers”: Breadwinner Mothers with Partners at Home -- Chapter 4. “Shift-Workers” and “Dual-Dividers”: Sharing Earning, Sharing Caring -- Part III. The Longer View: Couples with School-Age Children -- Introduction -- Chapter 5. Challenges on the Path to Change -- Chapter 6. Parents as Peers -- Part IV. Review and Reflection -- Introduction -- Chapter 7. Parenting and the Undoing of Gender -- Appendix. The Study Participants -- Notes -- References -- Index

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Drawing on findings from interviews done with 32 families living in cities across Canada, Ranson challenges dominant understandings of mothering and fathering by looking closely at how couples who have opted for less traditional divisions of labour negotiate their parental and household responsibilities. Included are interviews with breadwinner mothers and caregiver fathers, and with dual-earner couples, both heterosexual and same-sex, who struggle to share equally in the nurture and support of their families. A central claim of the book is that, to the extent that both parents are equally involved in hands-on caregiving, they tend to become, over time, functionally interchangeable and move away from "mothering" and "fathering," and toward parenting. Against the Grain offers us an excellent opportunity to examine how social change happens at the forefront of family life.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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