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

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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