Many fathers are now providing hands-on, engaged care to babies and young children. This book draws on observations of, and interviews with, caregiving fathers, as well as analyses of fathers' memoirs and online blogs, to examine fathers' caregiving work as embodied practice and as lived experience.

Autorentext
Gillian Ranson is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary, Canada. She has previously published in the areas of gender, families and paid employment including Against the Grain: Couples, Gender and the Reframing of Parenting (2010).

Inhalt

PART I: SETTING THE SCENE Introduction 1. Research context PART II: SEEING AND HEARING FATHERS Introduction 2. 'Everything but breastfeeding' 3. 'It's a whole new level' PART III: READING FATHERS Introduction 4. 'You need to do the grunt work' 5. 'Making the case for a new kind of manhood' PART IV: JOINING THE THREADS Introduction 6. Fathers, caregiving and social change