Barbara Hobson (ed.)

Making Men into Fathers

Herausgeber: Hobson, Barbara

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Prominent gender studies scholars consider how institutional settings and policy shape new models of fatherhood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780521809276
• ISBN-10: 0521809274
• Artikelnr.: 35455471

Autorenporträt

Barbara Hobson is a Professor of Sociology and holds a chair in Sociology and Gender Studies at Stockholm University. She is a director of the Advanced Research School in Comparative Gender Studies, a program for international research exchange and advanced doctoral studies. Barbara Hobson is both the founding and current editor of Social Politics: International Studies of Gender, State, and Society, published by Oxford University Press and is the Vice President of the Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare, and Social Policy (RC 19 of the International Sociological Association''. Barbara Hobson has published numerous articles on gender and welfare states on the themes of gender and citizenship, including women''s agency and welfare state formation, solo mothers, and women''s economic dependency in the family. Her current research and publications address (1) gender and economic citizenship within the framework of the European Union; and (2) social movements in trans-national policy arena. Her most recent book publications include an edited collection, Gender and Citizenship in Transition published by Macmillan Press and a coedited collection, Contested Concepts. Gender and Social Politics. The Fatherhood project, from which Making Men into Fathers emerged, was one of several international projects from an extensive research program grant, which was awarded to Barbara Hobson from the Centennial Fund of the Bank of Sweden. Another book from the project will be published in 2002: Recognition Struggles: Gender, Class, and Race/Ethnic Identities and the Frames of Citizenship.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Introduction: making men into
fathers Barbara Hobson and David Morgan; Part I. Who Fathers?: 1.
Coresidential paternal roles in industrialized countries: Sweden, Hungary
and the United States Livia Sz. Oláh, Eva M. Bernhardt and Frances K.
Goldscheider; Part II. Men in Social Policy and the Logics of Cash and
Care: 2. Citizens, workers or fathers? Men in the history of US social
policy Ann SholaOrloff and Renee Monson; 3. Compulsory fatherhood: the
coding of fatherhood in the Swedish welfare state Helena Bergman and
Barbara Hobson; 4. The problem of fathers: policy and behaviour in Britain
Jane Lewis; 5. A new role for fathers? The German case Ilona Ostner; 6.
Transformations of fatherhood: the Netherlands Trudie Knijn and Peter
Selten; Part III. Resisting and Reclaiming Fatherhood: 7. Making sense of
fatherhood: the non-payment of child support in Spain Ingegerd
Municio-Larsson and Carmen Pujol Algans; 8. The Fatherhood Responsibility
Movement: the centrality of marriage, work and male sexuality in
reconstructions of masculinity and fatherhood Anne Gavanas; Part IV.
Theorizing Men, Masculinities and Fatherhood: 9. Men, fathers and the
state: national and global relations Jeff Hearn; 10. Epilogue David Morgan;
Notes; References; Index.