Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-320) and indexes.
Contents:
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.
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