Parenthood between Generations

A focus on the intergenerational transmission of parenthood.
Brings together innovative, qualitative research by anthropologists, historians and sociologists.

Siân Pooley is a Tutorial Fellow in Modern British History at Magdalen College and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of History, University of Oxford. Her research explores the social and cultural history of Britain since 1850, especially through the experiences, relationships, and inequalities that mattered to children, men, and women. She is currently working on parenthood, children's writing, and experiences of maltreatment in childhood.

Introduction
Siân 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. 1850-1914
Siân Pooley Chapter 6. First-time Parenthood among Migrant Pakistanis: Gender and Generation in the Postpartum Period
Kaveri Qureshi Chapter 7. Intergenerational Mythscapes and Infant Care in North-western Amazonia
Elizabeth Rahman Chapter 8. Generational Change and Continuity amongst British Mothers: the Sharing of Beliefs, Knowledge and Practices c.1940-1990
Angela Davis Chapter 9. 'I Feel my Dad every Moment!': Memory, Emotion and Embodiment in British South Asian Fathering Practices
Punita Chowbey and Sarah Salway Chapter 10. Becoming Papa: Kinship, Senescence and the Ambivalent Inward Journeys of Ageing Men in the Antilles
Adom Philogene Heron Conclusion
Siân Pooley and Kaveri Qureshi