Book Launch: Paths to Parenthood

"A unique contribution to parenthood and feminist scholarship and a must read for anyone interested in real life experiences of motherhood, fatherhood, and the doing of modern family lives."
- Professor Tina Miller

Paths to Parenthood: Emotions on the Journey Through Pregnancy, Childbirth and Early Parenting is an exciting and innovative contribution to scholarly and popular debates on emotional experiences of becoming a parent in contemporary societies in the Global North. At the heart of the book is a single set of narrative interviews with new mothers and fathers from diverse sociocultural backgrounds and living in varied family arrangements, analysed from different disciplinary perspectives and across the 'stages' along the path to parenthood. Through these accounts of everyday experiences of both the joys and the challenges of becoming a mother or father, the volume seeks to 'legitimise the full range of emotions' that accompany this life course event, and to expose the particular ways in which parenthood is socially, economically and historically constructed and how these constructions shape emotional experiences.

Join the editors, Professor Renata Kokanović, Associate Professor Paula Michaels, and Dr Kate Johnston-Ataata, over afternoon tea on Thursday 28th February to celebrate the launch of 'Paths to Parenthood' with special guest and renowned narrative researcher and scholar of transitions to motherhood and fatherhood, Professor Tina Miller, from Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Please contact Kate Johnston-Ataata (kate.johnston-ataata@rmit.edu.au) for any queries.