Men, Fathering and the Gender Trap
Subtitle: Sweden and Poland Compared
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Mar 06, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9783319477817
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: Men, Fathering and the Gender Trap: Sweden and Poland Compared