Analysing American Advice Books for Single Mothers Raising Sons - Essentialism, Culture and Guilt

Informationen zum Autor Dr Berit Åström is an associate professor at the Department of Language Studies, Umeå University, Sweden. Her main research field is motherhood studies. Klappentext This intersectional study analyses the normative pressures placed on single mothers raising sons in contemporary parenting literature and how traditional ideas of masculinity and femininity are used to undermine the mothers. The study further connects the advice books to a cultural backlash against ideas of 'involved fatherhood' and 'caring masculinity'. Zusammenfassung This intersectional study analyses the normative pressures placed on single mothers raising sons in contemporary parenting literature and how traditional ideas of masculinity and femininity are used to undermine the mothers. The study further connects the advice books to a cultural backlash against ideas of ‘involved fatherhood’ and ‘caring masculinity’. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Childcare and Advice in Times of Change; Gender: Borderwork, Science and the Dangerous Mother; Class and Race: Expectations of Mothers and Sons; Reinstating the Father: Fathers in Advice Books for Mothers; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Product details

• Authors: Berit Astroem, Berit Astrom, Berit Åström
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781785278884
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-888-4
• No. of pages: 110
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Single Parent, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminism and feminist theory, Parenting, parenthood: advice, topics and issues, 'boy crisis'; cultural prejudice towards single mothers