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Concerned Fatherhood
This chapter provides an antidote to this negative portrayal in its exploration of how concerned Muslim fathers do what they can to guide their...
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From fatherhood premium to motherhood penalty: trends in the fertility effects on men's and women's wage in China (1989–2015)
Investigating the impact of fertility on the wage earnings of men and women and its trends is important for understanding and coping with both the...
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Fatherhood and Masculinities Intersections of Care, Bodies and Race
Based on novel ethnographic research conducted in New York City, this book explores through the lens of intersectionality how gender impacts men’s...
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Intensive Fatherhood? The (Un)involved Dad
This chapter examines fatherhood, suggesting that the model of ‘intensive mothering’ is being extended to men. It argues that men provide a useful...
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Emergent fatherhood: new articulations of fatherhood among Muslim men in Denmark
This article explores how new practices and articulations of fatherhood are emerging among Muslim men in Denmark. With an explicit focus on care as...
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Querying Lesbian Fatherhood
This article is an auto-ethnographic exploration of the subject position “lesbian dad.” Lesbian fatherhood is understood as a category in which...
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Practices of Care: The Embodiment of Fatherhood
On a cold December afternoon, Logan and I go pick up his daughter Alice who goes in an all-girl private school in Manhattan. I am impressed by the...
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Work, Caring Masculinities and the Work of Fatherhood
Talking one day with Logan sitting down on a bench in Morningside Park in Manhattan, I’m remembering out loud the National Convention for At-Home...
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The Empty Nest as a Phase of Fatherhood
Research indicates that men’s involvement in childcare and upbringing has increased and has gained greater significance in their personal lives....
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Becoming a Father in South Africa: Customary Practices and Negotiating Fatherhood
This chapter explores how customary practices shape the process of becoming a father among amaXhosa men in South Africa. In the context of low...
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Fatherhood, Privilege, and Rac(e)ism
One Monday night, I am sitting around a table with a group of men at one of the monthly meetings with the Fathers’ Group, a support group for a dozen...
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Fathers, Fathering, and Fatherhood Queer Chicano/Mexicano Desire and Belonging
Bringing together a unique collection of narrative accounts based on the lived experience of queer Chicano/Mexicano sons, this book explores fathers,...
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‘I am a father’: Masculinities and Paternal Narratives in South Africa and Guinea
Drawing from two case studies from South Africa and Guinea, in this chapter we analyse the importance of fatherhood for the notion of masculinities....
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Fatherhood in Urban South Africa: The Making of the “Poor, Black man” as the Absentee Father in South African Media
The last decade has witnessed a gradual shift in South Africa in the ways that men are talked about in policy and development discourses. Men and...
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Changing Representations of Fatherhood through the Lens of Family Leisure Photographs
This paper utilizes family leisure photographs to examine New Zealand society’s changing representations of fatherhood. Photographs are a useful lens...
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Gender Wage Gap Among Couples and the Role of Parenthood Across the Wage Distribution in Turkey
The gender wage gap and the penalty of parenthood on wages are still major economic and sociological problems, especially in developing economies....
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Pure Fatherhood and the Hollywood Family Film
This book maps father failure and redemption through three decades of Hollywood family films, revealing how libertarian notions that align agency...
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Young Men’s Experiences of Being Fathered and Absent Father’s Experience: A Case Study from Urban Informal Settlements in South Africa
The impact of absent fathers can be a significant challenge for young people, but particularly for young men. Our study drew on 19 in-depth...
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Negotiating Fatherhood Sport and Family Practices
Winner of the Leisure Studies Association's Outstanding Book Prize
This book examines the tensions and ambivalences which men encounter as they...
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Gendered Divergence in the Impact of Parenthood on Wages: The Role of Family Size, Human Capital and Working Time
While gender pay disparity is a frequently researched area, few have focused on how parenthood and family size impact the wages of mothers and...
