Overview
- Provides a cutting-edge debate on men, masculinities and fatherhood
- Fills a significant lacuna by comparing countries with liberal and conservative attitudes to fatherhood
- Offers both theoretical and empirical perspectives on this issue
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book provides an account of fatherhood and changing parental roles in Sweden and Poland. It uses a comparative perspective to show what men understand a father’s role to be, and how they seek to live up to it. Fathering, the author argues, is a social phenomenon grounded in cultural patterns of parenting, gender roles and models of masculinity, and also shaped by family policy. Being a father today, she demonstrates, is longer connected solely with being the main breadwinner. Rather, it has become increasingly common for fathers to take on duties traditionally regarded as the domain of women. This means that men often face conflicting expectations based on different models of fatherhood. The aim of this thought-provoking book is to track these models, analysing their origins and their consequences for gender order. It will appeal to students and scholars of gender studies, the sociology of families and social policy studies.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Men, Fathering and the Gender Trap
Book Subtitle: Sweden and Poland Compared
Authors: Katarzyna Suwada
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47782-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47781-7Published: 06 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83822-9Published: 20 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47782-4Published: 23 February 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 315
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations
Topics: Gender Studies, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Politics of the Welfare State, Area Studies