Family Men

Name: Family Men
SKU: 9780199674909
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Author: Laura King
ISBN: 9780199674909

Fatherhood and Masculinity in Britain, 1914-1960

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

AvLaura King

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Fathers are often neglected in histories of family life in Britain. Family Men provides the first academic study of fathers and families in the period from the First World War to the end of the 1950s. It takes a thematic approach, examining different aspects of fatherhood, from the duties it encompassed to the ways in which it related to men's identities. The historical approach is socio-cultural: each chapter examines a wide range of historical source materials in order to analyse both cultural representations of fatherhood and related social norms, as well as exploring the practices and experiences of individuals and families. It uncovers the debates surrounding parenting and family life and tells the stories of men and their children.While many historians have examined men's relationship to the home and family in histories of gender, family life, domestic spaces, and class cultures more generally, few have specifically examined fathers as crucial family members, as historical actors, and as emotional individuals. The history of fatherhood is extremely significant to contemporary debate: assumptions about fatherhood in the past are constantly used to support arguments about the state of fatherhood today and the need for change or otherwise in the future. Laura King charts men's changing experiences of fatherhood, suggesting that although the roles and responsibilities fulfilled by men did not shift rapidly, their relationships, position in the family, and identities underwent significant change between the start of the First World War and the 1960s.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-01-15
Mått168 x 242 x 21 mm
Vikt536 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780199674909

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Laura King is a Research Fellow within the School of History at the University of Leeds. Having completed a PhD at the University of Sheffield in 2011, she then moved to the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick, before commencing her fellowship at Leeds in 2012. As well as researching the history of fatherhood in twentieth-century Britain, Laura has developed a number of public engagement initiatives around fatherhood, and her current role involves supporting researchers at Leeds to ensure their research has significance outside academia. You can follow her on Twitter @DrLauraKing.

Overall, Family Men makes a significant and original contribution to the histories of gender, family and everyday life in twentieth-century Britain, marking it as essential reading for scholars interested in those fields. It adds complexity and nuance to our understanding of both masculinity and fatherhood, uncovers the multiplicity of men's, largely unexplored, family identities and experiences, and effectively demonstrates that fathers have been central to both the cultural construction and lived experience of family life during this period. More research into fatherhood in the twentieth century is required; and this book provides an exceptional starting point for the development of this historiography.