Contemporary Grandparenting: Changing Family Relationships in Global Contexts
Editat de Sara Arber, Dr. Virpi Timonenen Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 mai 2012
With rampant changes to family structures over the past decades, grandparenting has gained new and profound social and economic significance. Despite its importance, however, grandparenting’s many dimensions are still poorly understood. Contemporary Grandparenting provides a much-needed corrective to this. The first book to take a sociological approach to the new roles grandparents have, it combines new theories with up-to-date empirical findings in an effort to document the changing nature—across the globe— of these important family members.
Taking up this unprecedented task, the contributors here analyze how grandparenting changes under different welfare states and within different cultural contexts. It examines a range of specific topics, such as the breakdown of the nuclear family and the gender roles of grandfathers. Sensitive to the conflicting norms and expectations grandparents face, this book shows how they can act to forge new identities within today’s powerful societal and cultural constraints
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781847429681
ISBN-10: 1847429688
Pagini: 270
Ilustrații: 10 tables, 5 figures
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bristol University Press
Colecția Policy Press
ISBN-10: 1847429688
Pagini: 270
Ilustrații: 10 tables, 5 figures
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bristol University Press
Colecția Policy Press
Notă biografică
Sara Arber is professor of sociology and codirector of the Centre for Research on Ageing and Gender at the University of Surrey and the author of Gender and Later Life and Women and Working Lives. Virpi Timonen is associate professor and founding director of the Social Policy and Ageing Research Centre at the School of Social Work and Social Policy at Trinity College, Dublin.
Cuprins
List of tables and figures
Notes on contributors
1. A new look at grandparenting
Virpi Timonen and Sara Arber
Part One: Grandparents responding to economic and family transformations
2. Transformations in the role of grandparents across welfare states
Katharina Herlofson and Gunhild O. Hagestad
3. The wellbeing of grandparents caring for grandchildren in rural China and the United States
Lindsey Baker and Merril Silverstein
4. Grandmothers juggling work and grandchildren in the United States
Madonna Harrington Meyer
5. Solidarity, ambivalence and multigenerational co-residence in Hong Kong
Lisanne S. F. Ko
6. Grandparenting in the context of care for grandchildren by foreign domestic workers
Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun
Part Two: Grandparent identities and agency
7. Being there, yet not interfering: the paradoxes of grandparenting
Vanessa May, Jennifer Mason and Lynda Clarke
8. Grandparental agency after adult children’s divorce
Virpi Timonen and Martha Doyle
9. Grandfathering: the construction of new identities and masculinities
Anna Tarrant
10. Understanding adolescent grandchildren’s influence on their grandparents
Alice Delerue Matos and Rita Borges Neves
11. Social contact between grandparents and older grandchildren: a three-generation perspective
Katharina Mahne and Oliver Huxhold
12. Grandparenting in the 21st century: new directions
Sara Arber and Virpi Timonen
Index
Notes on contributors
1. A new look at grandparenting
Virpi Timonen and Sara Arber
Part One: Grandparents responding to economic and family transformations
2. Transformations in the role of grandparents across welfare states
Katharina Herlofson and Gunhild O. Hagestad
3. The wellbeing of grandparents caring for grandchildren in rural China and the United States
Lindsey Baker and Merril Silverstein
4. Grandmothers juggling work and grandchildren in the United States
Madonna Harrington Meyer
5. Solidarity, ambivalence and multigenerational co-residence in Hong Kong
Lisanne S. F. Ko
6. Grandparenting in the context of care for grandchildren by foreign domestic workers
Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun
Part Two: Grandparent identities and agency
7. Being there, yet not interfering: the paradoxes of grandparenting
Vanessa May, Jennifer Mason and Lynda Clarke
8. Grandparental agency after adult children’s divorce
Virpi Timonen and Martha Doyle
9. Grandfathering: the construction of new identities and masculinities
Anna Tarrant
10. Understanding adolescent grandchildren’s influence on their grandparents
Alice Delerue Matos and Rita Borges Neves
11. Social contact between grandparents and older grandchildren: a three-generation perspective
Katharina Mahne and Oliver Huxhold
12. Grandparenting in the 21st century: new directions
Sara Arber and Virpi Timonen
Index
Recenzii
“This book provides an extraordinary portrait of grandparenting in the twenty-first century and significantly advances the scientific study of intergenerational relations. The contributions from outstanding scholars cover a broad range of theoretical perspectives, with an international focus. This book is a must-read for everyone interested in the role of grandparents in contemporary society.”