Search for dissertations about: "fatherhood"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 swedish dissertations containing the word fatherhood.

  2. 1. Masculinizing fatherhood : sexuality, marriage and race in the U.S. Fatherhood Responsibility Movement

    Author : Anna Gavanas; []
    Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOCIAL SCIENCES; U.S. Fatherhood Responsibility Movement; Fatherhood; Paternal role; Male role; Family; Family politics; United States; Fadersrollen; Familjer; Familjepolitik; Förenta staterna; Mansrollen; Manlighet;

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  4. 2. Perceiving motherhood and fatherhood : Swedish working parents with young children

    Author : Clarissa Kugelberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; anthropology; Sweden; family; parenthood; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

    Abstract : This book explores the way in which a group of parents of pre-school children construct the meaning of motherhood and fatherhood and cope with discourses that hold conflicting rules and value systems. Being a working parent today in Sweden entails moving between various domains. READ MORE

  5. 3. Gender and Emotions in Family Care – Understanding masculinity and gender equality in Sweden

    Author : Sofia Björk; Göteborgs universitet; Göteborgs universitet; Gothenburg University; []
    Keywords : doing gender; re-doing gender; undoing gender; moral intelligibility; masculinities; emotion management; empathic imagination; fatherhood; parenthood; eldercare; sons’ caregiving; gender equality; liveability; Sweden;

    Abstract : This thesis addresses care responsibilities in families as an arena for gender reproduction and change, primarily in the Swedish context, which includes a long history of gender equality policies, and broad public support for ideals of gender equality. The overall aim is to contribute to understanding of how gender continues to be given relevance in family caregiving when caregivers, in their efforts to form liveable and emotionally sustainable lives, make them-selves intelligible in relation to sometimes conflicting norms and ideals of care, work and gender equality. READ MORE

  6. 4. Becoming a father : Sources of information, birth preference, and experiences of childbirth and postnatal care

    Author : Margareta Johansson; Ingegerd Hildingsson; Christina Rubertsson; Ingela Rådestad; Marie Berg; Mittuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : Birth experience; Fatherhood; Mode of birth; Postnatal care; Preference; Social support; Transition; Quality of care;

    Abstract : The period of pregnancy and childbirth is an important and sensitive time for men’s upcoming parenthood. Research into fathers’ experiences of childbearing has received less attention compared to maternal experiences. READ MORE

  7. 5. Suburbia Rewritten : Masculinity and Affect in Contemporary American Literature

    Author : Ola Jönsson; Danuta Fjellestad; Helena Wahlström Henriksson; Heinz Ickstadt; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Suburbia; affect; masculinity; domophobia; masculinity in crisis; separate spheres; fatherhood; Joyce Carol Oates; Rick Moody; Philip Roth; John Updike; Richard Yates; John Cheever.; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : Suburbia has made a powerful return in American literature of the past two decades. This renaissance of suburban fictional narrative bears the signum of alienated, anxious, and resentful white middle-class men in gray flannel suits that has remained since the formative postwar period of the 1950s and 1960s. READ MORE