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Men, Fathering and the Gender Trap Sweden and Poland Compared

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Suwada, Katarzyna
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
Subjects:
Social Inequality
Family
Gender Studies
Area Studies
Social Policy
Sociology Of Family, Youth And Aging
Social Groups
Social Structure, Social Inequality
Sociology
Welfare State
Politics Of The Welfare State
Children, Youth And Family Policy
Social Structure
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of 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

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