Fatherhood and masculinities : intersections of care, bodies and race / Catherine Gallais.
Gallais, Catherine, author.
2023
HQ756 .G35 2023
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Title Fatherhood and masculinities : intersections of care, bodies and race / Catherine Gallais.
Author Gallais, Catherine, author.
ISBN 9783031341328 electronic book
3031341325 electronic book
3031341317
9783031341311
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34132-8
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-34132-8 doi
Call Number HQ756 .G35 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.874/2097471
306.874/2
Summary Based on novel ethnographic research conducted in New York City, this book explores through the lens of intersectionality how gender impacts mens experiences of full-time fatherhood, as well as how sexuality, race, class, faith, and so on result in unequal access to choices and opportunities as parents. Chapters analyze how perspectives on caregiving are complicated by varying cultural, gendered, and racialized stereotypes and representations that pull different fathers toward or push them away from particular models of fatherhood in an urban context. Additionally, the author interrogates how societal conceptions of mens bodies also play a role in how men understand their experiences of fatherhood. This book will be of interest to scholars and students studying gender, masculinity, and fatherhood. Dr. Catherine Gallais has a doctorate in Anthropology, Sociology, and Gender Studies and specialises in fatherhood and masculinities. She is an associate member of the research unit Laboratoire interdisciplinaire en tudes culturelles (LinCS UMR 7069) and a lecturer at the University of Strasbourg in France. Her scholarly interests are centered on issues of social justice, intersectionality, race and racism, practices of care and embodiment, always in relation to men, masculinities, and fatherhood. She has published book chapters and journal articles on men, masculinities, and care.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 05, 2023).
Series Genders and sexualities in the social sciences.
Available in Other Form Fatherhood and Masculinities
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Intro
Acknowledgments
Book Abstract
Contents
About the Author
Abbreviations
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Fathering Across Five Boroughs
Fatherhood in the United States: Care, Bodies, and Race
Fathers Through the Lens of Intersectionality
Fathering in NYC: Some Explanation of the Context
Introducing the Fathers
Study Methods
Book Outline
References
Chapter 2: Learning to be a Primary Caregiving Father
Care Trajectories
'Carers by Choice'
'Carers by Circumstances/Necessity'
'Heroes' Versus 'Anomalies'
'Experts' Versus 'Apprentices'

The 'Experts'
A Discourse of 'Instincts'
The Women as 'Gate Openers'
The 'Apprentices'
Frank: Between 'Expert' and 'Apprentice'
Conclusions
References
Chapter 3: Work, Caring Masculinities and the Work of Fatherhood
The Decline of the Breadwinner Model
The 'Working Fathers'
The 'Work-from-Home Fathers'
The 'Break-from-Work Fathers'
Giving Up the Breadwinner Identity
Ambivalent Feelings in Relation to Earning
Childcare as 'Work'
'Professional Dads'
Conclusions
References
Chapter 4: Practices of Care: The Embodiment of Fatherhood

The Nature of Caregiving
Care as an Embodied Practice
Body Techniques
Daddy Doing Hair
Conclusions
References
Chapter 5: Fatherhood, Privilege, and Rac(e)ism
Racecraft
Race in New York City
____ While Black
'A Matter of Life and Death'9
The 'Talk'
Parenting While Black
Conclusions
References
Chapter 6: Imagining (New) Fathers
At-Home Fathers, Whiteness, and Femininity
Black, Middle-Class, Single Fatherhood
(Imagined and Real) Parental Fears
Conclusions
References
Chapter 7: Painting a Diverse Picture of Fathers

The Issue of Whiteness
Rethinking the 'New Father'
Contributions and Relevance of the Study
Gender, Care, Bodies
Rethinking the "American Family"
References
Appendix
References
Index

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