Men, Fathering and the Gender Trap
Sweden and Poland Compared
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Beschreibung
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.
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
Autor*in
Katarzyna Suwada
Themen in »Men, Fathering and the Gender Trap«
Gender roles Parenthood Family policy Masculinities fatherhood welfare state feminism domestic work motherhood Power Subordination Domination area studies