Parenting and Gender
Practices, Ideologies, and Inequalities across Contexts
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Parenting is deeply shaped by gendered norms and inequalities. Parenting and Gender offers a comprehensive sociological examination of how gender structures parenting practices and how parenting, in turn, reproduces or challenges these inequalities across diverse contexts.
Grounded in international and interdisciplinary scholarship, this edited volume brings together chapters that explore the complex relationship between gender and parenting. Featuring diverse contributions, the volume examines how gender ideologies shape caregiving roles, emotional labour, and decision making within families, as well as how these dynamics vary across contexts. Situating parenting within broader social transformations including changing family structures, labour market participation, and evolving discussions around equality, the volume highlights how expectations of motherhood and fatherhood continue to be unevenly distributed while also showing the ways individuals and families negotiate and reconfigure these norms.
Presenting intersectional and comparative perspectives, Volume 39 of Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research makes a significant contribution to understanding parenting as a site where gender inequality is both sustained and contested. A critical framework for analysing parenting through the lens of gender and social inequality, it is insightful reading for scholars and students in sociology, family studies and gender studies.
Chapter 1. From Beliefs to Behaviours: How Parental Identities and Gender Ideologies Shape Childcare Involvement in British Families; Mariana Pinho
- Chapter 2. Proseso ng Alaga (Process of Care) in Filipino Households: Uncovering Contexts, Forms, and Meanings of Care Relationships through Selected Facebook Posts and Comments; Michelle Antoinette G. Soriano and Jaconiah Shelumiel Tenedero Manalaysay
- Chapter 3. Gendered Pathways of Family Influence: Paternal and Maternal Roles in Children’s Physical Activity and Obesity; Hamid Amini
- Chapter 4. Disrupted Mothering Behind Bars: Coping and Adaptation among Pregnant Women in a Philippine Prison; Romulo Nieva Jr
- Chapter 5. Waiting for the Kids: Intensive Parenting and the Timing of Parental Gender Transition; Jaclyn Ann Tabor
- Chapter 6. Gendered Parenting Beyond Early Childhood: Household Structure and Adult Engagement in Children’s Schooling Across Low- and Middle-Income Countries; Lauren Pandolfelli, Ghislain Mbep, Enrique Delamonica, Yuxin Wang, and Ramya Subrahmanian
- Chapter 7. Gendered Pathways in Food Parenting: Distinct Predictors of Intrusive and Supportive Feeding Among Mothers and Fathers of Preschoolers; Jackie A. Nelson, A. Zoe Francisco, Jacob C. Frater, and Shayla C. Holub
- Chapter 8. Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Perceived Parental Responsibility: Patterns by Parent Gender, Child Gender, and whether the Sexual Behavior is with a Same-Sex Partner; Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer, Paula England, Madi Lou Abel, and Tamara C. Ogle
- Chapter 9. Gendered Parental Involvement and Its Key Correlates in Contemporary China; Xinge Xu, Jingyi Wang, Shaocong Ma, and Michelle Yik
- Chapter 10. ‘Attachment Parenting’ Fathers in Greece: Active Parents or Actively Dependent on Mothers?; Eleana Armao and Lida Anagnostaki
- Chapter 11. Caring Fathers in Germany and the US: A Stalled Revolution?; Marina A. Adler and Karl Lenz
- Chapter 12. Parenting Under Constraint: Gender, Care, and Inequality in Türkiye; Gokhan Savas
- Chapter 13. Revisiting Gender Dynamics and Parenting in Germany: How Is Mothers’ and Fathers’ Parenting Behavior Linked to Children’s Socio-Emotional Functioning?; Hanna Maly-Motta, Christine Entleitner-Phleps, Claudia Recksiedler, Alexandra N. Langmeyer, Anja Linberg, and Mirjam Weis
- Chapter 14. Fathers, Sons, Husbands: Intergenerational Changes in Men’s Roles and Representations in Contemporary Iran; Rassa Ghaffari
Gokhan Savas, Ph.D., FHEA, is Professor of Sociology at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Sampson Lee Blair is a family sociologist and demographer at The State University of New York (Buffalo), USA.