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Author Suwada, Katarzyna, author

Title Men, fathering and the gender trap : Sweden and Poland compared / Katarzyna Suwada
Published [Cham] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (XV, 315 pages)
Contents Introduction -- Chapter 1. Fatherhood and change: an overview -- Chapter 2. Researching fatherhood: methodological challenges -- Chapter 3. Fatherhood as a political issue: the case of Sweden and Poland -- Chapter 4. 'It's my responsibility ... ': definitions of fatherhood -- Chapter 5. 'I couldn't really work less": fathers facing social expectations -- Chapter 6. 'I had no idea it is so hard': practices of fatherhood -- Chapter 7. Conclusions: Fathers, Gender & the Welfare State
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Social structure.
Fatherhood -- Sweden
Fatherhood -- Poland
Father and child -- Sweden
Father and child -- Poland
Social policy.
Public Policy
social structure.
public policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Father and child
Fatherhood
Social policy
Social structure
Poland
Sweden
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783319477824
331947782X