When Couples Become Parents examines the ways in which divisions based on gender both evolve and are challenged by heterosexual couples from late pregnancy through early parenthood.
Parenthood
- Auteur:Fox, BonnieSommaire:
- Auteur:Cobb, Mo DuffySommaire:
Unpacked is the inspiring story of a mother in search of herself, a husband and wife fighting for a marriage, a young daughter who rises from confusion, and the scenes and revelations that bring Mo out of her paralyzing grief and into...
- Auteur:Mucina, Devi DeeSommaire:
Ubuntu is a Bantu term meaning humanity. It is also a philosophical and ethical system of thought, from which definitions of humanness, togetherness, and social politics of difference arise. Devi Dee Mucina is a Black Indigenous Ubuntu...
- Auteur:Logan, NikkiSommaire:
When Lea became accidentally pregnant she decided that she would go it alone. Rodeo star Reilly wasn't the sort of man who'd want to be tied down. But five years later she needs to tell him her secret. Learning he's a daddy is...
- Auteur:Ambert, Anne-MarieSommaire:
The Effect of Children on Parents thoughtfully explores the interactions by which parents and children change, develop, and sometimes affect each other negatively. Everyone knows that parents influence their children, but few...
- Auteur:Margulis, JenniferSommaire:
Journalist Jennifer Margulis questions the information parents are given by the medical community and the consumer culture, addressing the relationship between the money-making business of pregnancy and the early childcare advice...
- Auteur:Ferland, FrancineSommaire:
Être parent, c’est vivre un quotidien teinté d’amour, de fierté et de tendresse, mais parfois aussi d’impatience, de frustration et d’exaspération. C’est partager des moments de grand bonheur, mais également des questionnements, des...
- Auteur:Calder, HannahSommaire:
Piranesi's Figures is a romp through the magnificent psychological ruins of at least two marriages and one attempt at child rearing, and a gleefully reckless contortion of novelistic conventions, sexual practices, and family dynamics....
- Auteur:Nguyen, BethSommaire:
Named a Best Memoir of 2023 by Oprah Daily Selected by Time , NPR, and BookPage as a Best Book of 2023 "This book...is what memoir writing in the hands of a caring, curious wunderkind can be." - Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy...
- Auteur:O'Farrell, JohnSommaire:
Alice and David are constantly worrying about their children and their needs. Are they falling behind in their school work, have they practiced their music lessons, have they gotten enough sleepover invitations or made enough friends?...
- Auteur:Bennett, AndreaSommaire:
A revelatory book about gender, mental illness, parenting, mortality, bike mechanics, work, class, and the task of living in a body. Inquisitive and expansive, Like a Boy but Not a Boy explores author andrea bennett's experiences...
- Auteur:Hiemstra, Jessica, Martin-DeMoor, Lisa, Jernigan, KimSommaire:
One size fits all does not apply to pregnancy and childbirth. Each one is different, unique, and comes with its share of pleasure and pain. But how does one prepare for an unexpected loss of a pregnancy or hoped-for baby? In How to...
- Auteur:McAdam, ColinSommaire:
Told from the perspectives of both humans and chimpanzees, A Beautiful Truth is about Looee, a chimp raised by a compassionate human couple in Vermont who cannot conceive a baby of their own. When Looee’s two natures collide, this...
- Auteur:Collier, Victoria, Collier, JenniferSommaire:
Creating a family in the 21st Century presents certain challenges: career couples are waiting longer and discovering infertility issues and gay & lesbian couples are becoming parents through various methods. The authors share their...