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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785260203321

Autore

Townsend Nicholas

Titolo

Package Deal [[electronic resource] ] : Marriage, Work And Fatherhood In Men'S Lives

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-89619-9

9786612896194

1-4399-0619-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Disciplina

305.31/0973

306.87420973

Soggetti

Fatherhood

Fatherhood -- United States

Fathers

Men -- United States

Middle aged men

Sex role -- United States

Gender & Ethnic Studies

Social Sciences

Gender Studies & Sexuality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Contradictions and Complications; 2. Package Deals and Scripts; 3. The Four Facets of Fatherhood; 4. Marriage: The Women in the Middle; 5. Employment as Fatherhood; 6. Home Ownership: Housing the Family; 7. Fathers of Fathers: Kinship and Gender; 8. Implications; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this important new work, Nicholas Townsend explores what men say about being fathers, and about what fatherhood means to them. He shows how men negotiate the prevailing cultural values about fatherhood, marriage, employment, and home ownership that he conceptualizes as a ""package deal."" Townsend identifies the conflicts



and contradictions within the gendered expectations of men and fathers, and analyzes the social and economic contexts that make emotionally involved fathering an elusive ideal.Drawing on the lives and life stories of a group of men in their late forties who graduated from