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Couvade Syndrome: What Male Sympathetic Pregnancy is & how You Can Fight it
When Men become Pregnant! Is your wife or partner pregnant and you're experiencing morning sickness, baby bumps and muscle cramps? Do you have the sudden urge to eat everything you find and you feel that you have finally gone crazy? You feel that no one will ever believe that you're having the same symptoms your pregnant partner has and you just need an urgent solution to your mysterious pregnancy symptoms. From the author of "My wife's pregnant, so I am going to be a father," comes another informative book about couvade syndrome, which will explain why you're having the strange pregnancy symptoms you may be sharing with your pregnant partner. You're not the first to experience these symptom...
The Politics of Reproductive Ritual
"A welcome addition. They argue that rituals of reproduction in preindustrial societies are essentially political. In these societies, they say, men need to control the reproductive power of women in order to establish political power; where there is no law or central government, ritual is used as a way of gaining control. The type of ritual will vary, they conclude, according to the economic base of the society. . . .for those whoa re interested in the subject, this book is indispensable. Its thesis is challenging and the documentation is excellent. Paige and Paige have mad ean essential contribution to a long debate, and their theory is sure to stir new and lively controversy." --Science Digest This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
Expectant Fathers
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Birthing Fathers
In this unique study, Richard Reed draws on the feminist critique of professionalized medical birthing to argue that the clinical nature of medical intervention distances fathers from child delivery. He explores men's roles in childbirth and the ways in which birth transforms a man's identity and his relations with his partner, his new baby, and society. In other societies, birth is recognized as an important rite of passage for fathers. Yet, in American culture, despite the fact that fathers are admitted into delivery rooms, little attention is given to their transition to fatherhood.
Psychological Anthropology Reconsidered
Reviews developments in pyschological anthropology and examines psychoanalytic, dialogical and social perspectives on personality and culture.
Parsing through Customs
In these stimulating essays, Alan Dundes presents a history of psychoanalytic studies of folklore while also showing how folklore methodology can be used to clarify and validate psychoanalytic theory. Dundes’ work is unique in its symbolic analysis of the ordinary imagination. His data are children’s games, folktales, everyday speech, cultural metaphors for power and prestige, and rituals associated with childbirth.
Deeply Into the Bone
Providing a personal, informed and cultural perspective on rites of passage for general readers, this text illustrates the power of rites to help us navigate life's troublesome transitions.
