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Making sense of fatherhood : gender, caring and work

Miller, Tina 1957- (Author).

Summary: "This book explores the journeys of a group of men into first-time fatherhood in the UK. It does so at a time when discussions about men and their involvement in family lives -- or lack of involvement -- continue to occupy political debate, newspaper column inches and of course individual and family lives too. Whilst so much around women's lives and motherhood is simplistically assumed, taken for granted and unquestioned, the relationship between men and fatherhood is seen as more problematic: requiring definition, 'claims' and other interventions in order to shape its visibility (or deny it), its dimensions and direction. The parameters of fatherhood are, then, less clearly drawn when set beside those which powerfully and morally encompass motherhood. But both are shaped by the 'choices' and constraints in which gendered lives are lived and which converge on the domains of the home and paid work. These domains provide the settings in which many of the responsibilities associated with motherhood and fatherhood -- caring and providing -- have been understood and practised. Yet these responsibilities and the ways in which they are understood and undertaken are not fixed but rather configured in relation to complex structural, cultural and gendered conditions in an historical moment. In discourses of modern fatherhood in the UK men's involvement in caring for their children has been positioned as (ideally) 'emotionally engaged', 'involved', 'active', 'sensitive' 'intimate' and 'positive' rather than as previously characterised more exclusively in relation to economic provision and the 'breadwinner role' or indeed absence"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780521743013
ISBN: 9780521519427
ISBN: 052174301X
ISBN: 052151942X
ISBN: 9780511918926
ISBN: 9780511915154
ISBN: 9780511778186
ISBN: 0511918925
ISBN: 0511915152
ISBN: 051177818X
Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 206 pages)
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Computer data.
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:april.19 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-203) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Gendered lives and caring responsibilities: an overview -- Gendered discourses: men, masculinities and fatherhood -- Anticipating fatherhood: 'being there' -- Making sense of early fathering experiences -- A return to a new normal: juggling fathering and work -- Gendering practices: motherhood and fatherhood expectations and experiences -- Conclusions and reflections.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by EBSCO.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.