Fatherhood and the British Working Class, 1865-1914

ISBN-13: 9781107446861 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 244 str.

Julie-Marie Strange

Opis

A pioneering study of Victorian and Edwardian fatherhood, investigating what being, and having, a father meant to working-class people.

Recenzje

'Excellent. … Strange's nuanced analysis of the emotional intracies of fathering ensures that fathers will certainly be actors in future feminist histories of families.' Ellen Ross, History Workshop Journal

Spis treści

Introduction: O father, where art thou?; 1. Love and toil: fatherhood, providing and attachment; 2. Love and want: unemployment, failure and the fragile father; 3. Man and home: the interpersonal dynamics of fathers at home; 4. Front stage values, back stage lives: family togetherness, respectability and 'real' fathers; 5. Funny talk: laughter, family and fathering; 6. The fond father: protection, authority, reconciliation; Conclusion: discovering fatherhood; Bibliography; Index.