Making Men into Fathers
Making Men into Fathers
Fatherhood is on the political agenda in many countries, often cast in terms of crisis. One side of the policy debate focuses on fathers as deadbeat dads who do not provide financial support and care for their children. The other revolves around making men into active and engaged fathers. However, these policies are often at odds with the employers' reluctance to accommodate work schedules to fathers' needs. In Making Men into Fathers, prominent scholars in gender studies and the critical studies of men consider how varied institutional settings and policy logics around cash and care contour the possibilities and constraints for new models of fatherhood, determining the choices open to men. From different historical and societal perspectives, the authors provide insights into the studies of men as gendered subjects, including the role of transnational and global issues of fatherhood, and the emergence of men's movements, contesting and reimaging fatherhood.
- An anthology on the social politics of fatherhood that looks across time and space with comparative and historical perspectives
- The book has interesting material on fatherhood movements, and interviews with key actors in men's movements
- The book contains a chapter with unique data on men's patterns of partnering and remarriage in three geographical and cultural areas
Reviews & endorsements
'It does … make an important contribution and will be a continuing asset. The paperback edition also has a wonderful cover picture. This is a photograph from a Swedish campaign promoting the new father in the 1970s. It shows a well-known weightlifter holding a baby. The weightlifter is smiling hesitantly, as if he had just discovered a new pleasure but was not sure if it was allowed. The baby is looking quite sceptical. Perhaps they are both right.' International Sociology
Product details
January 2002Paperback
9780521006125
340 pages
229 × 152 × 22 mm
0.548kg
11 b/w illus. 7 tables
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Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Introduction: making men into fathers Barbara Hobson and David Morgan
- Part I. Who Fathers?:
- 1. Coresidential paternal roles in industrialized countries: Sweden, Hungary and the United States Livia Sz. Oláh, Eva M. Bernhardt and Frances K. Goldscheider
- Part II. Men in Social Policy and the Logics of Cash and Care:
- 2. Citizens, workers or fathers? Men in the history of US social policy Ann SholaOrloff and Renee Monson
- 3. Compulsory fatherhood: the coding of fatherhood in the Swedish welfare state Helena Bergman and Barbara Hobson
- 4. The problem of fathers: policy and behaviour in Britain Jane Lewis
- 5. A new role for fathers? The German case Ilona Ostner
- 6. Transformations of fatherhood: the Netherlands Trudie Knijn and Peter Selten
- Part III. Resisting and Reclaiming Fatherhood:
- 7. Making sense of fatherhood: the non-payment of child support in Spain Ingegerd Municio-Larsson and Carmen Pujol Algans
- 8. The Fatherhood Responsibility Movement: the centrality of marriage, work and male sexuality in reconstructions of masculinity and fatherhood Anne Gavanas
- Part IV. Theorizing Men, Masculinities and Fatherhood:
- 9. Men, fathers and the state: national and global relations Jeff Hearn
- 10. Epilogue David Morgan
- Notes
- References
- Index.
