The coronavirus pandemic: exploring expectant fathers' experiences
The coronavirus pandemic: exploring expectant fathers' experiences
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DOI：
10.1080/14797585.2021.2002668
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发表时间：
2021-12-01
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0.9
通讯作者：
Menzel, Alice
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作者：
Menzel, Alice
冠状病毒大流行引起了人们对普遍存在的社会不平等和不同的性别关系，特别是母亲/父亲之间的关系的严重关切。事实上，大流行导致人们普遍退回到传统的养育角色，在无数的日常、机构、空间，包括工作场所、家庭和福利/医疗服务。这些影响对期待孩子的夫妇尤其明显。为遏制病毒在医疗机构内的传播而实施的访客限制政策，有效地“禁止”了英国（和其他地方）许多准父亲参加产前预约，甚至是孩子的出生;里程碑式的时刻被广泛认为是父亲向父母过渡的重要社会文化“仪式”。许多孕妇不得不独自面对这些时刻，引发了包括#ButNotMaternity在内的运动。本文批判性地探讨了这种制度的反应如何表现出复杂的“福利权衡”有效（重新）定位父亲作为观众，而不是参与者，在怀孕/为人父母和风险体现了潜在的掉头近几十年来的重点参与，公平的父亲。根据自2020年3月以来流行媒体报道的英国准妈妈/准爸爸的描述以及#ButNotMaternity运动，它采用主题社交媒体分析，通过将特定（父亲的）身体排除在产妇护理空间内，探索在疫情期间限制访客的情感影响以及育儿的性别化和情感治理。
The Coronavirus pandemic raises significant concerns about pervasive social inequities and disparate gender relations, particularly between mothers/fathers. Indeed, the pandemic engendered a general retreat into traditional parenting roles across myriad, everyday, institutional, spaces, including workplaces, homes, and welfare/healthcare services. These effects have been especially marked for couples expecting a child. Visitor-restriction policies, implemented to curb viral-spread within healthcare settings, effectively 'barred' many expectant fathers in the UK (and elsewhere) from attending antenatal appointments, and even the birth of their child; milestone moments widely regarded as significant socio-cultural 'rites-of-passage' in fathers' transition to parenthood. Many pregnant women had to face these moments alone, sparking campaigns including #ButNotMaternity. This paper critically examines how such institutional responses exhibit a complex 'welfare trade-off' effectively (re)positioning fathers as spectators, rather than participants, in pregnancy/parenthood and risk embodying a potential U-turn to recent decades' emphasis on involved, equitable fatherhood. Drawing upon the accounts of expectant mothers/fathers in the UK reported in the popular press since March 2020 and the #ButNotMaternity campaign, it employs thematic social-media analysis to explore the emotional impacts of visitor-restrictions and the gendered, emotional governance of parenting amidst the pandemic through the exclusion of particular (fathers') bodies within maternity care spaces.