The 'good father': Reading men's accounts of paternal involvement during the transition to first-time fatherhood
The 'good father': Reading men's accounts of paternal involvement during the transition to first-time fatherhood
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DOI：
10.1348/014466603322438198
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发表时间：
2003-09-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Procter, J
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作者：
Henwood, K;Procter, J
这项研究调查了男性对当代社会文化变革在男子气概和为人父方面的反应，并修改了对他们作为父亲的期望。文中描述了四种文化和学术视角：进步的心理社会转型议程，试图恢复传统的家庭价值观，对改变男性和父亲与性别秩序的关系的乐观和抵制的混合，以及对新父亲话语复制霸权男子气概的批评。对诺福克30名年龄在18-35岁的男性进行了访谈，并进行了定性分析。受访者压倒性地欢迎新的父亲模式为他们提供的机会，并支持一种被认为是男性和父亲参与家庭生活而不是脱离家庭生活的文化转变。但也有报道称，在实现理想的过程中存在三个紧张和困难的领域：提供现金和照顾；重视无私和自主；谈判公平、公平和决策(对于那些希望全面参与育儿的父亲来说，而不是帮助他们)。我们的结论是，无论是“霸权的男性气概”还是“男性作为家庭的一部分”的观点，都没有耗尽阅读男性对当代父亲生活的描述中所表现出的满足感和紧张情绪。在理解新父亲的问题和优势时，或者说男人需要经历更大的改变，这些论点也不能提供结束点。
The study investigates men's responses to contemporary sociocultural transformations in masculinity and fatherhood, and revised expectations of them as fathers. Four cultural and academic perspectives on 'new fatherhood' are described: a progressive psychosocial transformation agenda, attempts to reinstate traditional family values, a mix of optimism and resistance to change in men and fathers' relationship to the gender order, and criticism of new fatherhood discourse for reproducing hegemonic masculinity. A qualitative analysis is conducted of interviews conducted with a heterogeneous sample of 30 men aged 18-35 years in Norfolk. Interviewees overwhelmingly welcomed the opportunities offered to them by the new fatherhood model and supported a perceived cultural shift towards men and fathers being involved in, rather than detached from, family life. But three areas of tension and difficulty in living the ideal were also reported: providing cash and care; valuing selflessness and autonomy; and negotiating fairness, equity and decision making (for fathers who rather than helping out wanted full involvement in child care). We conclude that neither the 'hegemonic masculinity' nor the 'men as part of the family' perspectives exhaust the options for reading the gratifications and tensions advanced in men's accounts of living contemporary fatherhood. Arguments for greater balance in appreciating the problems and advantages of new fatherhood, or that men need to undergo greater change, also fail to offer points of closure.