Overview
- Presents for the first time an in-depth and sociological account of paternal love
- Provides a cultural comparison representing Scottish and Romanian masculinities
- Engages with literature on love, masculinity, culture and father’s involvement
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life (PSFL)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores how contemporary men understand love in the realm of family life and how they integrate it into their identity. Drawing from Ian Burkitt’s aesthetic theory of emotions, Macht presents rich data from qualitative interviews and observations with Scottish and Romanian involved fathers, to reveal how they maintain closeness to their children, their partners and their own family of origin. Reflecting on distances, separations, power, worry and intergenerational experiences of love Fatherhood and Love hypothesizes that fathers’ identities and emotionality rely on a variety of social relationships in their intimate environment. A new concept, ‘emotional bordering’, is introduced, to portray the tensions inherent in fathers’ identities and illuminate why gender progress happens slowly. Engaging with literature on love, masculinity, culture and father’s involvement from a unique perspective, this book will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of social science disciplines.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Alexandra Macht is Lecturer in Sociology, Oxford Brookes University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fatherhood and Love
Book Subtitle: The Social Construction of Masculine Emotions
Authors: Alexandra Macht
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20358-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20357-3Published: 08 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20360-3Published: 08 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20358-0Published: 26 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2731-6440
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6459
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 187
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Men's Studies, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Ethnicity Studies