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Understanding Zimbabwean Men’s Involvement in Abortion
Despite abortion in Zimbabwe is legally restricted and socially undesirable, it is still a common occurrence and is mostly unsafe. There is dearth of...
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“their mothers, and their fathers, and everyone in between”: Queering Motherhood in Trans Parent Memoirs by Jennifer Finney Boylan and Trystan Reese
In their respective memoirs Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders (2013) and How We Do Family: From Adoption to Trans...
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Construction of the “Dangerous Man”
This chapter explores how certain political rhetoric and media discourses construct Muslim migrant men as a hindrance to both positive integration...
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Wenn Mama eine psychische Erkrankung hat, wer macht dann die Care-Arbeit? Eine qualitative Analyse zur innerfamiliären Organisation von Care
The number of mental illnesses has been on the rise—not least in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Women, in particular, are affected by mental...
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Fathers and School
This chapter conceptualises the “gender givens” of Danish schools, whereby teachers prefer to interact with the pupils’ mothers, making fathers feel...
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Gendered Parenthood-Employment Gaps from Midlife: A Demographic Perspective Across Three Different Welfare Systems
Women’s labor force participation has increased in Western countries, but gender gaps remain, especially among parents. Using a novel comparative...
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Experts and Parenting Culture
Intensive parenting is partly defined by the ubiquity of expert advice to parents, and the expert is a key figure in the longer history of the family...
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Mistrusted Masculinity
This chapter explores how the negative controlling image of mistrusted masculinity plays out in intersubjective relations between Muslim migrant...
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Double Disadvantage in a Nordic Welfare State: A Demographic Analysis of the Single-Parent Employment Gap in Finland, 1987–2018
This study demonstrates how an evolving negative educational gradient of single parenthood can interact with changing labour market conditions to...
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Ambivalent Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering: From Normal and Natural to Not-at-all
This chapter introduces the volume by outlining some crucial scholarly histories: the feminist study of motherhood and mothering, and the literary...
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Remembering Kobe Bryant as a Girl Dad: Race, Gender, and Reputation Repair
Reputational entrepreneurs act as gatekeepers of memory and manage national figures’ remembrance within a competitive field of interpretative...
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Sport, Fathers and Fathering
There is little doubt that today’s fathers are responding to new expectations about fatherhood and fathering practices. The remote, detached,...
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The Family Biorhythm: Contributions of the HPA and HPG Axes to Neuroendocrine Attunement
ObjectiveThe vast majority of research on biobehavioral influences on development has focused on mothers and infants, whereas research on paternal...
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Struggling with Limitations, Creating New Possibilities: Perspective of Men Experiencing the Empty Nest
This chapter focuses on an individualised perspective of men experiencing an empty nest. The theoretical framework is based on concepts of hegemonic...
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Conclusion: Sexual Violence Politics and the Remaking of Femininities and Masculinities
This chapter synthesizes themes from the previous chapters to argue that neoliberal political rationality is a thoroughly gendered and produces a...
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Problematizing Men and Toxic Masculinity
This chapter analyses how discourses of toxic masculinity and associated terms such as wounded masculinity and father hunger arose in the context of...
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Fathering Practices, Sport and Children
The third empirical chapter addresses the relationships between fathers and their children in and beyond the context of sport. Within this framework,...
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Dystopian Fictocriticism
I present this fictocriticism as a ‘genre-bending’ (Rhodes, Culture and Organization 21:289–303, 2015, p. 294) dystopian fiction and interpretation...
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Are Separated Fathers Less or More Involved in Childrearing than Partnered Fathers?
Separated fathers are generally assumed to be less involved with their children than partnered fathers. Yet, extant research on separated fathers has...
