Julie-Marie Strange

Fatherhood and the British Working Class, 1865-1914 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

A pioneering study of Victorian and Edwardian fatherhood, investigating what being, and having, a father meant to working-class people.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316237076
• Artikelnr.: 52955351

Autorenporträt

Julie-Marie Strange is Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester. She is author of Death, Grief and Poverty, 1870-1914 (Cambridge, 2005). Strange has appeared on Radio 4's Woman's Hour on the subject of fathers, and Thinking Allowed on the working-class Christmas. She also appeared in BBC4's 'A Century of Fatherhood' (Testimony Films).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: O father, where art thou?
1. Love and toil: fatherhood, providing and attachment
2. Love and want: unemployment, failure and the fragile father
3. Man and home: the interpersonal dynamics of fathers at home
4. Front stage values, back stage lives: family togetherness, respectability and 'real' fathers
5. Funny talk: laughter, family and fathering
6. The fond father: protection, authority, reconciliation
Conclusion: discovering fatherhood
Bibliography
Index.