Grandfatherhood and Leisure

Scraton, Sheila; Holland, Samantha

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“…This reproduces a persistent gendered division of labour in grandparenthood, continually gendering the spaces in which caring is enacted across the lifecourse. In contrast to findings by Scraton and Holland (2006) however, these men are not using these spaces because they see care for grandchildren as work and therefore detrimental to their ability to seek leisure. They are incorporating their grandchildren in these spaces, constructing distinctly masculine practices of care later in life in response to the needs of their grandchildren, as well as their ageing highlighting the relational nature of identity performances.…”

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“…This is spatially contingent and the men draw on spatial metaphors and gendered divisions of labour established earlier in the lifecourse to justify and make sense of their practices as grandfathers. While Scraton and Holland (2006) based their argument on a limited sample they also found that the established division of labour between leisure and childcare from fatherhood often continues into old age because men are reluctant or unable to break these patterns. This suggests that the occupation of particular spaces is significant to the performances of intergenerational interaction, and consequently how men perform their identities and caring obligations as old men, reproducing these gendered carescapes later in the lifecourse.…”

Section: My Wife More As the Provider Of Food And Home Comforts Imentioning

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Grandfathering as spatio-temporal practice: conceptualizing performances of ageing masculinities in contemporary familial carescapes

Tarrant

2013

Social & Cultural Geography

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This paper examines the spatio-temporalities of the intergenerational caring practices that contemporary grandfathers engage in with their grandchildren, in order to critique old men's constructions and performances of ageing masculinities, and the gendering and ageing of contemporary carescapes. Findings are based on 31 qualitative interviews and two participant observations, conducted in the NorthWest of England with men who are grandfathers. The concept of carescapes (Bowlby, Gregory and McKie 1997) is employed to explain that grandfathering is both spatially and temporally organized. Findings suggest that men construct distinctly masculine spaces of care later in life, contingent on both their resistance to spatially embedded ageism and their comparisons of grandfathering to previous lifecourse subjectivities, such as fathering. Complexity and diversity in how men negotiate these factors is also apparent and is explored. There is evidence for example that some men's performances of ageing masculinities contribute to the maintenance of a gendered division of labour in family care work, while others perform alternative masculinities that offer potential to transform gendered carespaces. This is further mediated by intergenerational interactions with children and grandchildren. Focus on old men who are grandfathers necessarily complicates geographical perspectives on the spatio-temporalities of multiple masculinities, ageing and informal familial care.Key words: Grandfathering; family; carescapes; masculinities; age; identity IntroductionAs a result of existing material, institutional and discursive framings, alongside a privileging of focus on gender over other dimensions of identity, care has come to be understood as Grandfather identities; neglected intersections of masculinities and 'old age'A small yet noteworthy body of sociological work is now attending to the apparent neglect of old men and ageing masculinities and it is this theoretical base that geographers could usefully exploit for developing and re-thinking the geographies of care as gendered, intergenerational and spatio-temporally organized, and masculinities as multiply produced, . These assumptions are problematic however as they are premised on essential understandings of both old age and hegemonic masculinity. Nonetheless this is theoretically interesting because the paradoxical and contradictory nature of these normative values suggests that ageing presents significant challenges to men as they get older and as they face the potential for gendered disempowerment resulting from the material processes of ageing. Geographies of ageing masculinitiesTo some extent the theoretical assumption that old age acts to de-gender old men has been replicated by social geographers, who rarely focus explicitly on old men and ageing masculinities. However limited research does suggest that old men's locations in age and gendered relations are of interest to geographers (Tarrant 2010). At one extreme, old men have been found to avoid public life altogether an...

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Grandfathering as spatio-temporal practice: conceptualizing performances of ageing masculinities in contemporary familial carescapes

Tarrant

2013

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…Scraton a Holland [2006] upozorňujú, že starí otcovia z ich výskumnej vzorky sú si vedomí generačnej obmeny a toho, že zmenené sociokultúrne prostredie a tiež vnúčatá ako jeho súčasť od nich očakávajú výraznejšie zapojenie, expresívnosť a výchovu. Ako špeciálne dôležité sa preto ukazuje zohľadňovanie veľkej kohorty mladších starých otcov v treťom veku [Laslett 1991], ktorých vzťa-hy s vnúčatami môžu byť v porovnaní so starootcovskými vzťahmi predchádzajú-cich generácií redefinované.…”

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“…Prezentovaný text rozširuje skôr neveľké rady empirických štúdií a pokúšame sa v ňom o revíziu zásadné-ho teoretického modelu starootcovstva, ktorý navrhujú a rozpracovávajú Bates a Taylor [2013]. Vychádzame pritom z existujúcich empirických štúdií [Cunningham-Burley 1984;Kivett 1985;Waldrop 1999;Roberto, Allen, Bleiszner 2001;Scraton, Holland 2006;Mann, Khan, Leeson 2009] a z transgeneračnej perspektívy priestorov a podôb starostlivosti Tarrant [2010Tarrant [ , 2012Tarrant [ , 2013.…”

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'It's Raining, Grandpa, Let's Go Out! So We Went.' Grandfathering as an Essential Role for Older Men

Sedláková¹,

Galčanová²,

Bělehradová³

2018

Czech Sociological Review

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Abstract:The study examines the experiences of contemporary older Czech men specifically in their role as grandfathers. Despite the great body of research devoted to the issues of grandparenthood, most attention, both locally and internationally, has been given to women and grandmotherhood. To overcome this shortcoming, we present findings based on eleven qualitative interviews conducted with men with diverse grandparenting experiences and performing various forms of caring practices. Grandparenting is a negotiated, relational, and highly gendered social role, which we explored in our research through our respondents' narratives focused on everydayness and memories of their own experience as a grandchild. Based on their self-reflective narratives we were able to describe the performative potential of grandparenting and define four types of activities through which grandfather roles take shape. On this basis we were also able to describe the spatio-temporal aspects of these practices, which proved to be crucial for understanding of gender issues of grandfatherhood. Although the narratives of the participants in our research reflect an active approach to fulfilling the grandparenting role, their caring practices are still predominantly structured in a gender-stereotyped way. In terms of theory, our research results build on and seek to contribute to one of the most influential theoretical models of grandfathers' involvement proposed by Bates and Taylor.

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“…Feminist researchers have long argued that it is women who predominantly take on care responsibilities for children (Brannen andNilsen 2006, McKie, Gregory andBowlby 2002) and grandchildren (Scraton and Holland 2006), and that this is spatially reproduced in an ongoing division of labor that constructs men as breadwinners or pursuers of outdoor leisure pursuits, and women as carers and associated with the domestic. This is supported to some extent, by the grandfathers who took part in this study (Tarrant 2013).…”

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Masculinities at the Margins of “Middle Adulthood”

Bartholomaeus

Tarrant

2016

Men and Masculinities

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The intersections of masculinities and age have attracted relatively little theorizing.This article examines the theoretical implications of young/old age and masculinities by bringing together two bodies of literature (young age and masculinities and old age and masculinities) and two research studies (one with pre-teenage school students in Australia and one with grandfathers in the UK). We focus on two key themes: caring practices and relations, and the divide between physical activity and intellectual pursuits. Drawing on these themes, we show how age allows for gender transgressions and practices of gender equality and how young boys and old men can also uphold a discourse of hegemonic masculinity, despite age-related tensions. We conclude by arguing that a consideration of age has much to offer in terms of thinking about how gender is socially constructed, and illuminates the complex interplay of power relations between these social inequalities.

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Grandfatherhood and Leisure

Cited by 41 publications

References 28 publications

Grandfathering as spatio-temporal practice: conceptualizing performances of ageing masculinities in contemporary familial carescapes

Grandfathering as spatio-temporal practice: conceptualizing performances of ageing masculinities in contemporary familial carescapes

'It's Raining, Grandpa, Let's Go Out! So We Went.' Grandfathering as an Essential Role for Older Men

Masculinities at the Margins of “Middle Adulthood”

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