Making Sense of Fatherhood: Gender, Caring and Work

ISBN-13: 9780521519427 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 206 str.

Tina Miller

Opis

As family and work demands become more complex, who is left holding the baby? Tina Miller explores men's experiences of fatherhood and provides unique insights into paternal caring, changing masculinities and men's relations to paid work. She focuses on the narratives of a group of men as they first anticipate and then experience fatherhood for the first time. Her original, longitudinal research contributes to contemporary theories of gender against a backdrop of societal and policy change. The men's journeys into fatherhood are both similar and varied, and they illuminate just how deeply gender permeates individual lives, everyday practices and societal assumptions around caring for young children. This book acts as a companion to Making Sense of Motherhood (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and, together, these innovative studies reveal how gendered practices around caring become enacted.

Recenzje

'Accessible, warm and authoritative; this perceptive account of first time fathering successfully articulates the micro-politics of family life and the macro-politics of public policy. Miller shows just how hard it is to 'un-do gender' as the demands of new parenthood confound expectations of equality for contemporary couples.' Rachel Thomson, The Open University

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Gendered lives and caring responsibilities: an overview; 2. Gendered discourses: men, masculinities and fatherhood; 3. Anticipating fatherhood: 'being there'; 4. Making sense of early fathering experiences; 5. A return to a new normal: juggling fathering and work; 6. Gendering practices: motherhood and fatherhood expectations and experiences; 7. Conclusions and reflections.