Couples' Transitions to Parenthood

Contents:

Preface

PART I Conceptual framework, comparative overview and methodology
1. Institutions as reference points for parents-to-be in European societies: a theoretical and analytical framework
Daniela Grunow and Gerlieke Veltkamp

2. Institutional context, family policies and women's and men's work outcomes in eight European welfare states
Marie Evertsson

3. Comparing couples' narratives within and across countries. Research design, sampling and analysis
Daniela Grunow

PART II The Scandinavian 'Role Model'?
4. The crossroads of equality and biology. The child's best interest and constructions of motherhood and fatherhood in Sweden
Jenny Alsarve, Katarina Boye and Christine Roman

PART III Conservative welfare states transforming the breadwinner-homemaker model
5. Anticipating motherhood and fatherhood - German couples' plans for childcare and paid work
Anna Dechant and Annika Rinklake

6. Dutch couples at the life-course transition to parenthood
Mirjam Verweij and Maria Reimann

7. The transition to parenthood in Switzerland: between institutional constraints and gender ideologies
Nadia Girardin, Felix Buehlmann, Doris Hanappi, Jean-Marie Le Goff, Isabel Valarino

PART IV Unsupportive familialism in crisis
8. The best for the baby: future fathers in the shadow of maternal care in Italy
Sonia Bertolini, Rosy Musumeci, Manuela Naldini, Paola Maria Torrioni

9. The transition to parenthood in Spain: Adaptations to ideals
Paco Abril, Patricia Amigot, Carmen Botia-Morillas, Marta Dominguez-Folgueras, Maria Jose Gonzalez, Teresa Jurado-Guerrero, Irene Lapuerta, Teresa Martin-Garcia, Jordi Monferrer and Marta Seiz

PART V Drifting apart: Post-socialist legacy in new welfare states
10. Searching for egalitarian divisions of care. Polish couples at the life course transition to parenthood
Maria Reimann

11. Constructions of parenthood in the Czech Republic: maternal care and paternal help
Olga Nesporova and Ruzena Stuchla

PART VI Conclusions in comparative perspective
12. Narratives on the transition to parenthood in eight European countries. The importance of gender culture and welfare regime
Marie Evertsson and Daniela Grunow

Index

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• Os estudos de gênero, grupos de gênero
• Sociologia: trabalho e mão de obra
• Sociologia, família e relacionamentos