Parenthood between Generations Transforming Reproductive Cultures [Hardcover]

Recent literature has identified modern parenting as an expert-led practiceone which begins with pre-pregnancy decisions, entails distinct types of intimate relationships, places intense burdens on mothers and increasingly on fathers too. Exploring within diverse historical and global contexts how men and women makeand breakrelations between generations when becoming parents, this volume brings together innovative qualitative research by anthropologists, historians, and sociologists. The chapters focus tightly on inter-generational transmission and demonstrate its importance for understanding how people become parents and rear children.

Kaveri Qureshi?is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford.? She works on Pakistani and Indian diasporas as well as in Punjab. She has research interests in migration, gendered life courses, family life, and how people deal with transitionsfrom an episode of incapacitating illness, to the breakdown of a marriage, to becoming a mother for the first time.

Introduction
Si?n Pooley and Kaveri Qureshi

Chapter 1.Between Future Families and Families of Origin: Talking about Gay Parenthood across Generations.
Robert Pralat

Chapter 2.The Politics of Fertility and Generation in Buganda, East Africa, 1860-1980.
Shane Doyle

Chapter 3.Changing Mothering Practices and Intergenerational Relations in Contemporary Urban China.
Michala Hvidt Breengaard

Chapter 4.Intergenerational Negotiations of Non-marital Pregnancies in Contemporary Japan.
Ekaterina Hertog

Chapter 5.Grandfathers, Grandmothers and the Inheritance of Parenthood in England, c. 18501914.
Si?n Pooley