Childbearing and the Changing Nature of Parenthood

Rosalina Pisco Costa is assistant professor at the Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of Évora (Portugal) and integrated researcher with CICS.NOVA.UÉvora - The Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences. She has a PhD in Sociology, and a master's degree specialization in Family and Population studies. She works mainly in the Sociology of the Family, Childhood, Everyday Life and Consumption Studies, while crosswise exploring different Social Research Methodologies.  Dr. Sampson Lee Blair is a family sociologist at The State University of New York (Buffalo). His research focuses upon parent-child relationships, with particular emphasis on child and adolescent development. As a Fulbright Scholar Award recipient (2010), he studied parental involvement and children's educational attainment in the Philippines. Most recently, he was elected as Vice-President (North America) of the Research Committee on Youth in the International Sociological Association.

Chapter 1.Putting Gender on Ice: Preserving Motherhood in Media Coverage of Elective Egg and Sperm Freezing; Ashlyn M. Jaeger 
Chapter 2.Becoming Mum: Exploring the Emergence and Formulation of a Mothers' Identity during the Transition into Motherhood; Samantha Reveley  
Chapter 3.Contextual Influences on Contraception Use among Poor Women in Pakistan; Hassan Raza
Brad van Eeden-Moorefield
Soyoung Lee
Lisa Lieberman 
Chapter 4.Doing Becoming a Mother: The Gendering of Parenthood in Birth-Preparation Classes in Germany; Marion Müller
Nicole Zillien
Julia Gerstewitz 
Chapter 5.Midwives in Ontario Hospitals: the Mainstreaming of "Alternative" Childbearing; Melodie Cardin 
Chapter 6.The Medicalization of Pregnancy and Childbirth in Contemporary Turkey: The Effect of Risk Discourses for Turkish Women's Experiences; Zehra Zeynep Sadıkoğlu 
Chapter 7.Going It Alone: A Multigenerational Investigation of Women's Perceptions of Single Mothers by Choice Versus Circumstance; Christina L. Scott
Siri Wilder
Justine Bennett 
Chapter 8.Building a Family within a Non-Heterosexual Couple: Struggles, Fears, Representations and Practices; Filomena Santos
Rita Dias 
Chapter 9.A Qualitative Inquiry: Reflections on Pregnancy, Birth, and Transition to Parenthood Experiences of African American Couples with a Toddler Son; Sheresa Boone Blanchard
Tacy Rae LeBaron