Between two worlds of father politics : USA or Sweden? / Michael Rush.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rush, Michael (Michael Anthony)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fathers--Services for--Sweden.

Fathers--Services for--United States.

Fatherhood--Social aspects--United States.

Fatherhood--Social aspects--Sweden.

Fatherhood--Case studies.

Fatherhood.

Fatherhood--Social aspects.

Fathers--Services for.

Fathers.

Sweden.

United States.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

163 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Between 2 worlds of father politics

Place of Publication:

Manchester [UK] : Manchester University Press, 2015.

Summary:

The two worlds' model shows that the social politics of fatherhood have taken on a global significance and that the USA and Sweden represent two ends on an international continuum in ways of understanding fatherhood. Between two worlds of father politics represents America and Sweden as divergent and internationally influential 'father regimes' or us 'two worlds' of fatherhood. This book offers students a critical analytical framework for ways of thinking about fatherhood and new insights into why some welfare states have 'father-friendly' social policies and others do not. It makes an original contribution to the growing fields of welfare regime and gender studies by linking the epochal decline of patriarchal fatherhood to welfare state expansion over the course of the twentieth century In this way the book raises increasingly relevant questions about gender equality and the declining global legitimacy of the rule of fathers over boys and girls. This book will interest readers in the fields of social policy, gender studies, sociology, family policy and child-development and especially those interested in the field of comparative social policy. As well as raising questions about the legitimacy of religiously inspired neo-patriarchy, the book offers new theories about gender equality as a driver of welfare state development. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Welfare, gender and fatherhood 10

2 The American model: state-enforced agency 29

3 The Swedish model: state-supported agency 46

4 The United Kingdom: full-time breadwinners and part-time fathers 64

5 Ireland: 'vulnerable fathers', invisible fatherhood 74

6 Fatherhood and the European Union 88

7 Crystallising the 'Nordic turn' in Japan and patriarchal decline in China 104

8 Individualisation and two varieties of patriarchy and fatherhood 120.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [141]-157) and index.

ISBN:

0719091896

9780719091896

OCLC:

895337712