Masculinities, Care and Equality Identity and Nurture in Men’s Lives

This book explores men's ambiguous relationship with intimate caring work within a context where carefree and nurturing expectations for men are competing for influence. For men, to be more involved carers clashes with commonly valued expectations of them as men and this book analyses how men c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hanlon, Niall
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2012, 2012
Series:Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This book explores men's ambiguous relationship with intimate caring work within a context where carefree and nurturing expectations for men are competing for influence. For men, to be more involved carers clashes with commonly valued expectations of them as men and this book analyses how men confront this contradictory expectation
Physical Description:XI, 260 p online resource
ISBN:9781137264879