Men, Fathering and the Gender Trap : Sweden and Poland Compared

• Main Author: Suwada, Katarzyna (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Sociology.; Area studies.; Social policy.; Welfare state.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319477824
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47782-4
• Physical Description: XV, 315 p. 29 illus. online resource.

This book provides an account of fatherhood and changing parental roles in Sweden and Poland. It uses a comparative perspective to show what men understand a father's role to be, and how they seek to live up to it. Fathering, the author argues, is a social phenomenon grounded in cultural patter...