Introduction: making men into fathers

Hobson, Bárbara; Morgan, David

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511489440.002

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“…Overcoming this disassociation is presently connected to the issues of responsibility and support, as the British Family Studies and similarly positioned works argued for the difficulty that men may have with the contemporary "new" or "engaged" fatherhood (e.g. Morgan 2004;Hobson 2002;Hobson and Morgan 2002;Collier 2008: 172-173), often due to their diminishing powers in economic spheres (e.g. Pine 1998), but also in the context of limited parental rights usually granted to men when couples separate (Smart 2007).…”

Section: Fatherhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is therefore increasingly noted by gender and family scholars that Rich's classic (1976) distinction between public institution of motherhood and individual practice of "mothering", may analogically be made among men, who define their fathering obligations from the place of agency and dynamic family practices. While men refer to broader constructions of socio-cultural ideals of "fatherhood", they make their own choices of "being with children", "doing fatherhood" or activities within "fathering" (Morgan and Hobson 2002). This indeed concurs with the application of Ruddick's (1989) framework to "mothering" men offered by Doucet (2010: 170-180) who links parenthood with contemporary dimensions of emotional, community and "moral" responsibilities that are based on maternal roles in nurturing and socialization, applied to everyone regardless of gender.…”

Section: Fatherhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Caught between breadwinning and emotional provisions - the case of Polish migrant fathers in Norway

Pustułka¹,

Struzik²,

Ślusarczyk³

2015

human

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This article discusses heterogeneity of family and parental practices among Polish migrant fathers in Norway. The paper begins with a recollection of the contemporary approaches to masculinities, and addresses the emergence of "new fatherhood" in both family scholarship and migration studies. In the conclusion to the theoretical section, we reflect on transnational parenting in the context of male mobility. The empirical basis for the study stems from a combination of biographic and narrative interviews with members of Polish migrant families in Norway: ten Polish couples and two interviews conducted with fathers alone (the interviews were reviewed for this article from the broader research dedicated to the Polish families in Norway). In the analysis, we draw on the significance of the institutional support and social expectations for creating new patterns of being a father, yet we also underline the salient importance of individual, biographical elements that certainly influence the every-day practices of Polish migrant fathers. We put forward a general conclusion that there is not a singular fathering or fatherhood type among the Polish men in Norway, but rather a continuum of various family arrangements, often propelled by men, is observed. It is therefore crucial to look at the biographies which suggest social change and a shift towards a "new fatherhood".

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Section: Fatherhoodmentioning

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Section: Fatherhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Caught between breadwinning and emotional provisions - the case of Polish migrant fathers in Norway

Pustułka¹,

Struzik²,

Ślusarczyk³

2015

human

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“…Policy debates are still dominated by the idea that reconciling work and family means improving conditions for women to do both. But debates around caring fatherhood and parental leave have brought some change in some countries (Hobson, 2002;Knijn and Selten, 2002;Lewis, 2002b). Policies to promote men's share of care work are only beginning, but this is a crucial part of the jigsaw if women's care work hours are to be reducedespecially in CEE countries -care work valued, and paid work shared more equally between men and women.…”

Section: Care Workmentioning

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Emerging Gender Regimes and Policies for Gender Equality in a Wider Europe

Pascall

Lewis²

2004

J. Soc. Pol.

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This article addresses some implications for gender equality and gender policy at European and national levels of transformations in family, economy and polity, which challenge gender regimes across Europe. Women's labour market participation in the west and the collapse of communism in the east have undermined the systems and assumptions of western male breadwinner and dual worker models of central and eastern Europe. Political reworking of the work/welfare relationship into active welfare has individualised responsibility. Individualisation is a key trend west − and in some respects east − and challenges the structures that supported care in state and family. The links that joined men to women, cash to care, incomes to carers have all been fractured. The article will argue that care work and unpaid care workers are both casualties of these developments. Social, political and economic changes have not been matched by the development of new gender models at the national level. And while EU gender policy has been admired as the most innovative aspect of its social policy, gender equality is far from achieved: women's incomes across Europe are well below men's; policies for supporting unpaid care work have developed modestly compared with labour market activation policies. Enlargement brings new challenges as it draws together gender regimes with contrasting histories and trajectories. The article will map social policies for gender equality across the key elements of gender regimes -paid work, care work, income, time and voice -and discuss the nature of a model of gender equality that would bring gender equality across these. It analyses ideas about a dual earner-dual carer model, in the Dutch combination scenario and 'universal caregiver' models, at household and civil society levels. These offer a starting point for a model in which paid and unpaid work are equally valued and equally shared between men and women, but we argue that a citizenship model, in which paid and unpaid work obligations are underpinned by social rights, is more likely to achieve gender equality.

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“…A major advance of epistemological perspectives has been the growth of studies which classified national variations in the social citizenship rights of fathers with reference to Esping-Andersen's (1990) welfare regime theory (WRT) including Rush, (2015), Smith and Williams, (2007), and Hobson et al (2002). Japan was classified across an international continuum as being medium/low in terms of parental leave decommodification, low in terms of child support obligations for non-resident fathers and low on shared parenting policies for non-resident fathers (Rush, 2015, p, 138).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Theorising fatherhood, welfare and the decline of patriarchy in Japan

Rush

2015

International Review of Sociology

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This paper sets research perspectives on Japanese fathers within a broader review of welfare regime literature and gender theory to develop a historical perspective on fatherhood and work-life balance debates in Japan. The aim of the paper is to build on the comparative social policy and evidenced-based hypothesis that addressing men's social citizenship rights as fathers is the most effectual way to increase their involvement in childcare (Rush, 2015).The paper engages critically with classifications of Japan as an emergent East-Asian welfare state regime and pivotal global leader in the decline of patriarchal fatherhood. The historical review illustrates that government promotion of 'father-friendly' work-life balance policies or waku-raifu baransu from the 1990s was rooted in gender quality campaigns by The Women's Bureau and grass roots feminism that stretched back decades to post-WWII era. In addition, a move away from Confucian, traditionalist or familial welfare ideologies in favour of a 'Nordic turn' towards more comprehensive family policies is illustrated to have been underpinned by epistemological social science discourses. However, the paper highlights that despite 'ultra-low' fertility rates, Japanese employers and conservative politicians continue to uphold a strong variant of male-breadwinning family arrangements as a form of traditionalised Japanese modernism (Ochiai, 2014, p.214). More positively, the findings illustrate an epistemological shift in fathering research perspectives away from negative images of ineffectual salary-man fatherhood in favour of a structural focus on re-shaping the social citizenship rights of Japanese fathers for shared parenting in the 21 st century.2

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Introduction: making men into fathers

Cited by 77 publications

References 157 publications

Caught between breadwinning and emotional provisions - the case of Polish migrant fathers in Norway

Caught between breadwinning and emotional provisions - the case of Polish migrant fathers in Norway

Emerging Gender Regimes and Policies for Gender Equality in a Wider Europe

Theorising fatherhood, welfare and the decline of patriarchy in Japan

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