书目名称 | Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality |
副标题 | Fathers on Leave Alo |
编辑 | Margaret O‘Brien,Karin Wall |
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概述 | This open access book provides an international perspective on fathers who take parental leave alone Raises important issues on modernization of the life course and the family in contemporary societie |
丛书名称 | Life Course Research and Social Policies |
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描述 | This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license..This book portrays men’s experiences of home alone leave and how it affects their lives and family gender roles in different policy contexts and explores how this unique parental leave design is implemented in these contrasting policy regimes. The book brings together three major theoretical strands: social policy, in particular the literature on comparative leave policy developments; family and gender studies, in particular the analysis of gendered divisions of work and care and recent shifts in parenting and work-family balance; critical studies of men and masculinities, with a specific focus on fathers and fathering in contemporary western societies and life-courses. Drawing on empirical data from in-depth interviews with fathers across eleven countries, the book shows that the experiences and social processes associated with fathers’ home alone leave involve a diversity of trends, revealing both innovations and absence of change, including pluralization as well as the constraining influence of policy, gender, and social context. As a theoretical and empirical book it raises important issues on modernization of the life c |
出版日期 | Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 2017 |
关键词 | Comparative leave policy developments; Family and gender studies; Gendered divisions of work and care; |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42970-0 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-82708-7 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-42970-0Series ISSN 2211-7776 Series E-ISSN 2211-7784 |
issn_series | 2211-7776 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2017 |