When couples become parents : the creation of gender in the transition to parenthood /
Bonnie Fox.
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, (c)2009.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 334 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- Giving birth : the dynamics of support and agency -- Becoming parents : the challenges of the postpartum period -- Becoming mothers, making fathers : negotiations in the economy of care -- Taking care of the baby : reproducing gender differences and divisions? -- Home making and making family -- Being mothers, being fathers : the costs of privatized responsibility for children -- A new life and changed relationships -- Conclusion.
9781442697072
Parenthood. Sex role. Parenthood--Social aspects. Sexual division of labor. Fatherhood. Motherhood. Families.