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Record Nr.

UNINA9910370038103321

Autore

Macht Alexandra

Titolo

Fatherhood and Love : The Social Construction of Masculine Emotions / / by Alexandra Macht

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-20358-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 187 p. 1 illus.)

Collana

Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life

Disciplina

305.31

155.6462

Soggetti

Men

Social groups

Family

Ethnicity

Men's Studies

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging

Ethnicity Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1.Changing Fathers and Changing Emotional Selves -- 2.Doing Love: Fathers’ Emotions in Relation to Their Children -- 3. Memories of Love: Fathers’ Emotions in Relation to Their Own Parents -- 4. Love and Power: Fathers’ Emotions in Relation to Their Romantic Partners’ -- 5. Discussion. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores how contemporary men understand love in the realm of family life and how they integrate it into their identity. Drawing from Ian Burkitt’s aesthetic theory of emotions, Macht presents rich data from qualitative interviews and observations with Scottish and Romanian involved fathers, to reveal how they maintain closeness to their children, their partners and their own family of origin. Reflecting on distances, separations, power, worry and intergenerational experiences of love Fatherhood and Love hypothesizes that fathers’ identities and emotionality rely on a variety of social relationships in their intimate environment. A new concept,



‘emotional bordering’, is introduced, to portray the tensions inherent in fathers’ identities and illuminate why gender progress happens slowly. Engaging with literature on love, masculinity, culture and father’s involvement from a unique perspective, this book will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of social science disciplines. Alexandra Macht is Lecturer in Sociology, Oxford Brookes University, UK.