Caring Fathers in the Global Context

Name: Caring Fathers in the Global Context
ISBN: 978-1-4473-7243-1

Petteri Eerola Katherine Twamley Henna Pirskanen Pedro Romero-Balsas(Herausgeber*in)

Policy Press

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Erschienen am 24. Juli 2025

368 Seiten

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Despite growing recognition of fathers' involvement in family life, dominant narratives still marginalise men's caring roles. Caring Fathers in the Global Context addresses a pressing gap in our shared understanding: how care is practised and experienced by men across diverse cultural, social and policy settings.

Drawing on wide-ranging, international research, this timely edited collection offers a rich, comparative exploration of how men become 'caring fathers' and the pathways leading to this. It connects fatherhood studies with care scholarship to provide new theoretical and empirical insights into how care is shared, negotiated and made meaningful in everyday life.

A vital and interdisciplinary resource for anyone studying families and social change, this book invites readers to rethink care, masculinity and intergenerational relationships in a rapidly changing world.

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"A nuanced and necessary exploration of contemporary fatherhood, bringing together diverse perspectives on fathers and care from around the globe." Karla Elliott, Monash University "Caring Fathers in the Global Context provides a unique and nuanced understanding of fathers' caring practices, identity work and parenthood. This extensive volume contributes to a well-needed update on global and diverse fatherhood in contemporary times. Combining empirical case studies in different countries, with a reflexive theoretical approach, the volume advances our knowledge of contemporary families and fathers' caring practices. It presents an excellent contribution to family studies as well as to critical studies on men and masculinities." Thomas Johansson, University of Gothenburg

"An impressively wide-ranging book that provides fascinating new empirical material on fathering practices in many different national contexts. Its focus on the experiences of minoritised fathers is particularly compelling." Rachel Brooks, University of Oxford "A remarkable book in both depth and scope - each chapter written by a truly international expert who has provided insights into caretaking by fathers in diverse contexts. An 'open access' publication, Caring Fathers in the Global Context is a 'must read' for anyone interested in this important topic with which, as is increasingly acknowledged, both child wellbeing and gender equality are closely intertwined." Adrienne Burgess, The Fatherhood Institute

"Based on international comparative research, this book provides new important knowledge about fathers' caring practices in different cultural and policy settings." Elin Kvande, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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Foreword (Margaret O'Brien, University College London)

Part I: Introduction to Caring Fatherhood

1. Why study fathers and care? - Katherine Twamley, Petteri Eerola, Pedro Romero-Balsas & Henna Pirskanen

2. The who, what and how of care in caring fatherhood: an ecological care ethics approach - Andrea Doucet

Part II: Understandings and Practices of Good Fatherhood and Care

3. 'He is our handyman': young people's narratives on caring fatherhood and family life in the Faroe Islands - Firouz Gaini

4. Changing fatherhood and gender roles in Somali families: experiences of being fathered in Somalia and in the diaspora - Marja Tiilikainen

5. Moving beyond the narrative of marginalised fatherhood: Russian fathers' accounts of nonresident fathering after family separation - Ekaterina Ivanova

6. Hegemonic, caring or hybrid fathers? The case of Polish fathers of adult children in 'the empty nest' - Magdalena Zadkowska, Radoslaw Kossakowski & Bogna Dowgiallo

7. Berry-picking fathers and burdened mothers: parenting modes in dual-income households of urban China during the COVID-19 pandemic - Guanli Zhang, Bingyi Zhang & Lichao Yang

Part III: Exploring What Facilitates or Inhibits Fathers' Care

8. Fathers on the 'night shift'? Understanding caring fatherhood through parents' interpretative repertoires of night-time care - Petteri Eerola, Armi Mustosmaeki & Henna Pirskanen

9. What happens when fathers are at home? Learning from families' accounts of COVID-19 lockdown in the UK and South Africa - Katherine Twamley & Sadiyya Haffejee

10. 'Being there' as providers and caregivers: caring masculinities in parenting and partnering among young fathers in the UK - Anna Tarrant, Linzi Ladlow & Laura Way

11. Gendered framings of responsibility for care and the availability of leave policies for fathers from a global perspective - Alison Koslowski

12. Gender role attitudes, perceptions of parenthood and father's parental leave use in Finland - Miia Saarikallio-Torp, Johanna Lammi-Taskula, Anneli Miettinen, Johanna Naervi & Ella Sihvonen

Part IV: Minoritised Fathers and Care

13. Syrian refugee dads in the UK: gendered practises of 'involvement' - Tina Miller & Esther Dermott

14. Reconstruction of fatherhood in a strange land: exploring fathering practices of Chinese migrants in Spain - Mengyao Wu & Alberto Del Rey Poveda

15. Refugee fathers' parenting to protect, nurture and train under resettlement in Sweden - Disa Bergnehr

16. Queer fathers and parents' caring path to parenthood in the Netherlands and Switzerland - Carole Ammann

17. Fathers caring in families with children with disabilities - Jesus Rogero-Garcia, Gerardo Meil & Pedro Romero-Balsas

18. Accounting for lack of emotional engagement: adults reconceptualising fatherhood - Ann Phoenix

19. Conclusions: Towards more nuanced understandings of fathers' care - Petteri Eerola, Henna Pirskanen, Pedro Romero-Balsas & Katherine Twamley

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