Overview
- Seeks to make visible men’s experience of poverty and deprivation
- Draws on personal accounts of vulnerability and precarity in low income families
- Provides a methodological framework for future research using qualitative secondary analysis
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life (PSFL)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book develops a new sociology of the intergenerational and longitudinal dynamics of men’s family participation in relation to their trajectories through poverty. By addressing the ostensible absence of men from low-income families in existing literature and policy, the authors interrogate the interconnectedness of poverty, family, and place while paying explicit attention to the trajectories of men through and across low-income families and localities. Through qualitative secondary analysis of four linked datasets from research within low-income families over a twenty-year period, Hughes and Tarrant argue that there is much to be gained from examining both men’s accounts of family and poverty across the lifecourse and the accounts of men experiencing family poverty. In so doing, they develop a new theoretical family lifecourse framework that accounts for the dynamic and place-based character of poverty and its implication for families. Thus, the book foregrounds the developmentof a more comprehensive sociology of family poverty.
Reviews
"With this fascinating and innovative study of economically-marginalized men, Kahryn Hughes and Anna Tarrant join the growing chorus of sociologists attuned to the damage visited upon families by the 'long arm' of poverty over the life course. They challenge us to forego caricatures of working class men who find 'the hills are growing steeper,' and they offer critical insights into unprecedented social inequality, historic shifts in gendered care and work experiences, and the rise and decline of institutions that have transformed family life (such as housing, pension, and prison). This book is a must-read blend of biography, history, and social structure thatwill engage community-based practitioners, policymakers, academics, and students alike." (Kevin Roy, Professor of Family Science, University of Maryland College Park School of Public Health, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Kahryn Hughes is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK. She is also Director of the Timescapes Archive, Editor-in-Chief of Sociological Research Online, and Senior Fellow of the National Centre for Research Methods, UK. She is internationally recognised for innovation in methods of Qualitative Secondary Analysis. Her substantive interests include intergenerational poverty and addiction.
Anna Tarrant is Professor of Sociology at the University of Lincoln, UK. She is also a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellow, leading a study called “Following Young Fathers Further.” Her work examines men’s family participation in low-income families. Her previous books include Fathering and Poverty (Policy Press, 2021).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Men, Families, and Poverty
Book Subtitle: Tracing the Intergenerational Trajectories of Place-Based Hardship
Authors: Kahryn Hughes, Anna Tarrant
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24922-8
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 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-24921-1Published: 28 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-24924-2Published: 29 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-24922-8Published: 27 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2731-6440
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6459
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 265
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Gender Studies, Common Family Law, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Politics of the Welfare State