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- Anna Tarrant's revealing research explores the dynamics and diversity of men's caring roles in low-income households at various stages of their lives. It sheds light on men's participation in care and the factors that affect it, including class, culture, work and the impact of austerity.
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- Fathering and Poverty (Online)
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- Fathering and Poverty (Online)
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- The dynamics of men's family lives: conceptualising family participation.
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- Reconciling earning and caring -- Managing 'shocks', and strategies for getting by -- Welfare trajectories and processes -- Child maintenance policy and processes -- Securing appropriate housing -- Anticipated welfare futures -- Concluding remarks -- 7 Men's family participation in low-income urban neighbourhoods -- A contextual description of the locality -- Immersion in life at the community centre -- Capturing locality-based resources: walking photovoice -- Concluding remarks -- 8 Conclusion: Men's family participation in low-income contexts -- The contributions of MPLC
- Researching with service providers and support professionals -- A brief note on the city as context -- Formal agencies -- Voluntary and third sector agencies -- Knowledge-exchange workshop -- Concluding remarks -- 5 Men's caring arrangements and family trajectories -- Diverse caring arrangements -- Young fathers -- Lone-father caring arrangements -- Social fathering and wider familial care practices -- Non-resident arrangements -- Lone, mid-life fatherhood -- Older male carers and grandfathers -- Concluding remarks -- 6 Familial economic circumstances and provisioning practices
- 3 Theorising men's participation in low-income families -- Qualitative longitudinal research: thinking dynamically -- Families, caring masculinities and low-income life: a conceptual framework -- Family dynamics, diversity and social change -- Changing gender relations -- Theorising masculinities and fatherhoods in transition -- Masculinities and the doing of kinship -- Theorising low-income family life and local ties -- Concluding remarks -- 4 Supporting men in low-income contexts: practitioner observations -- Low-income family interdependencies on services
- Researching the family participation of men in low-income contexts -- A new direction for debate and an overview of the book -- 2 Low-income fatherhoods in historical and political context -- Histories of low-income fatherhood: culture versus conduct -- The hyper-visibility of low-income fathers in contemporary social policy and welfare contexts -- Austerity Britain: absent fathers, deprived localities -- The (in)visibility of low-income fathers in social sciences research -- Marginalisation processes and fathering practices -- Men and contemporary family poverty -- Concluding remarks
- Front Cover -- Fathering and Poverty: Uncovering Men's Participation in Low- Income Family Life -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of abbreviations -- About the author -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Fathering, poverty, families and policy -- 'Dad deprivation': the current state of policy and public debate -- Contemporary fatherhoods: Unpicking father absence and presence -- The absent presence of low-income men -- Alternative stories? -- The absence of low-income fathers in qualitative research
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- ssj0002511268
- Author
Tarrant, Anna.
- Title
Fathering and Poverty [electronic resource] Uncovering Men's Participation in Low-Income Family Life
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Bristol : Policy Press, 2021.
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