Contemporary Scholarship on Fatherhood

Marsiglio, William

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“…The changing nature and meaning of fatherhood, and the conduct and interaction of fathers with their children are two of the many central foci of contemporary research on fathers (Marsiglio, 1993). In a review article on fatherhood, Marsiglio (1993) suggests the direction future research should take.…”

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“…In a review article on fatherhood, Marsiglio (1993) suggests the direction future research should take. Two of his recommendations bear special relevance to our study: 1) the relationship between men's work identity and father identity, and 2) the diverging perspectives of mothers and fathers and the need for reports from mothers to understand fatherhood.…”

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Masculinity and Child Care: The Reconstruction of Fathering

Brandth

Kvande

1998

The Sociological Review

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In this article we focus on a group of fathers who use parental leave and how they include care-giving in their construction of masculinity. The fathers shape their own masculine form of care-work differently from the mothers' interaction with the child. Both mothers and fathers, however, take part in the process of reproducing masculinity as the norm by giving masculine care higher status. Care-giving activities are adopted by the hegemonic form of masculinity with its strong connection to paid work.

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Masculinity and Child Care: The Reconstruction of Fathering

Brandth

Kvande

1998

The Sociological Review

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149

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“…Education has been presented as one of the most evident factors to determine people's views, with men and women of higher educational levels showing better choices in their reproductive life attitudes 47,48 . Educational level has a positive association to sympathetic attitudes regarding abortion 47,48,49 . A study on educational level and income showed an inverse association to abortion risk 44 .…”

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Abortion and sex-related conditions in substance-dependent Brazilian patients

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“…Fatherhood, and the experiences, practices, and understandings of what it means to be or to have a father in different contexts has become an important focus of gender research globally (Lupton and Barclay 1997;Marsiglio 1993) as well as locally (Clowes, Ratele and Shefer 2013;Langa 2010, Ratele, Clowes andShefer 2012;Richter and Morrell 2006;Swartz and Bhana 2009). In South Africa research exploring questions of fatherhood has drawn attention to the fact that a large -and increasing -proportion of South African children grow up in homes without fathers, with the proportion of children whose fathers were alive but who did not live with their children increasing from 42% in 1996 to 48% in 2009 (Holborn and Eddy 2011, 2).…”

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‘Family comes in all forms, blood or not’: disrupting dominant narratives around the patriarchal nuclear family

Gachago

Clowes

Condy

2016

Gender and Education

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After nearly 25 years of democracy lives of young South African's are still profoundly shaped by the legacies of apartheid. This paper considers how these differences are produced, maintained and disrupted through an exploration of changing narratives developed by a small group of South African pre-service teachers, with a particular focus on the narratives developed around discourses of fatherhood generally and absent fathers in particular. We draw on interviews conducted with three students in which we discussed their digital stories and literature reviews. In this paper we draw attention to the limitations of digital storytelling and the risks such autobiographical storytelling presents of perpetuating dominant narratives that maintain and reproduce historical inequalities. At the same time, in highlighting ways in which this risk might be confronted, the paper also aims to show the possibilities in which these dominant narratives may be challenged. IntroductionIt is over twenty years since South Africa's transition to democracy saw the introduction of a constitution outlawing discrimination, alongside the development of legislation aimed at providing the legal foundations upon which to build a more socially just society. And while it should be acknowledged that there has been substantial change, the beginning of the third decade of democratic governance continues to see the lives of South African citizens profoundly shaped by the legacies of the past. Inequalities and differences structured around the apartheid categories of race continue to overlap with class, gender, sexuality and other subject locations to frame and shape interactions, aspirations and opportunities available to South Africans. This paper considers how some of these differences are produced, maintained and disrupted through an exploration of changing narratives developed by a small group of South African students in a diverse pre-service teacher education classroom over the course of one academic year. We draw on interviews conducted with students at the end of 2015 in which we discuss digital stories they produced at the beginning of the year as well as literature reviews towards the end of the year, in which students' evaluated research into one of the themes emerging out of the digital stories. Our focus, in this paper, is on continuities and changes in narratives developed around a specific theme that emerged strongly in both the digital stories and the literature reviews -that of fatherhood generally and absent fathers in particular. We make two key points in the paper. The first is to draw attention to the limitations of digital storytelling and the risks such personal storytelling presents of perpetuating dominant

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Contemporary Scholarship on Fatherhood

Cited by 103 publications

References 44 publications

Masculinity and Child Care: The Reconstruction of Fathering

Masculinity and Child Care: The Reconstruction of Fathering

Abortion and sex-related conditions in substance-dependent Brazilian patients

‘Family comes in all forms, blood or not’: disrupting dominant narratives around the patriarchal nuclear family

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