Fathering, Masculinity and the Embodiment of Care [electronic resource] /
Ranson, Gillian.author.
Many fathers are now providing hands-on, engaged care to babies and young children. This book draws on observations of, and interviews with, caregiving fathers, as well as analyses of fathers' memoirs and online blogs, to examine fathers' caregiving work as embodied practice and as lived experience.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Part I: Setting the Scene; Introduction; 1 Research Context; Part II: Seeing and Hearing Fathers; Introduction; 2 'Everything but Breastfeeding'; 3 'It's a Whole New Level'; Part III: Reading Fathers; Introduction; 4 'You Need to Do the Grunt Work'; 5 'Making the Case for a New Kind of Manhood'; Part IV: Joining the Threads; Introduction; 6 Fathers, Caregiving and Social Change; Appendix: Details of Interviewees; Notes; References; Index
Many fathers are now providing hands-on, engaged care to babies and young children. This book draws on observations of, and interviews with, caregiving fathers, as well as analyses of fathers' memoirs and online blogs, to examine fathers' caregiving work as embodied practice and as lived experience.
Sociology.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
Families.
Families-Social aspects.
Cultural studies.
Sociology, general.
Social Theory.
Gender Studies.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
Family.
Cultural Studies.