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Contemporary grandparenting : changing family relationships in global contexts / edited by Sara Arber and Virpi Timonen.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Bristol : Policy, 2012.Description: xiii, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781847429674 (pbk.)
  • 184742967X (pbk.)
  • 9781847429681 (hbk.)
  • 1847429688 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.8745 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ759.9 .C65 2012
Contents:
A new look at grandparenting / Virpi Timonen and Sara Arber -- Transformations in the role of grandparents across welfare states / Katharina Herlofson and Gunhild H. Hagestad -- The wellbeing of grandparents caring for grandchildren in rural China and the United States / Linsey Baker and Merril Silverstein -- Grandmothers juggling work and grandchildren in the United States / Madonna Harrington Meyer -- Solidarity, ambivalence and multigenerational co-residence in Hong Kong / Lisanne S.F. Ko -- Grandparenting in the context of care for grandchildren by foreign domestic workers / Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun -- Being there, yet not interfering: the paradoxes of grandparenting / Vanessa May, Jennifer Mason and Lynda Clarke -- Grandparental agency after adult children's divorce / Virpi Timonen and Martha Doyle -- Grandfathering: the construction of new identities and masculinities / Anna Tarrant -- Understanding adolescent grandchildren's influence on their grandparents / Alice Delerue Matos and Rita Borges Neves -- Social contact between grandparents and older grandchildren: a three-generation perspective / Katharina Mahne and Oliver Huxhold -- Grandparenting in the 21st century: new directions / Sara Arber and Virpi Timonen.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HQ759.9 .C65 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001216935

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A new look at grandparenting / Virpi Timonen and Sara Arber -- Transformations in the role of grandparents across welfare states / Katharina Herlofson and Gunhild H. Hagestad -- The wellbeing of grandparents caring for grandchildren in rural China and the United States / Linsey Baker and Merril Silverstein -- Grandmothers juggling work and grandchildren in the United States / Madonna Harrington Meyer -- Solidarity, ambivalence and multigenerational co-residence in Hong Kong / Lisanne S.F. Ko -- Grandparenting in the context of care for grandchildren by foreign domestic workers / Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun -- Being there, yet not interfering: the paradoxes of grandparenting / Vanessa May, Jennifer Mason and Lynda Clarke -- Grandparental agency after adult children's divorce / Virpi Timonen and Martha Doyle -- Grandfathering: the construction of new identities and masculinities / Anna Tarrant -- Understanding adolescent grandchildren's influence on their grandparents / Alice Delerue Matos and Rita Borges Neves -- Social contact between grandparents and older grandchildren: a three-generation perspective / Katharina Mahne and Oliver Huxhold -- Grandparenting in the 21st century: new directions / Sara Arber and Virpi Timonen.

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