Supporting Young Men as Fathers Gendered Understandings of Group-Based Community Provisions /

• Main Author: Hanna, Esmée (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Men.; Social groups.; Family.; Families.; Families-Social aspects.; Men's Studies.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.

This book examines community group settings for young men who are fathers, with particular emphasis on the role of gender within the groups and the possibilities of such groups for the 'un-doing' of gender. Young men who are fathers are often marginalized and negatively portrayed within so...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Setting the Scene
• 2. Social Portrayals of young men who are fathers
• 3. Structural and contextual constraints on the lives of young men who ae fathers
• 4. The gendered landscape of parenting provision: Challenges and Opportunities
• 5. The value of groups for young men who are fathers
• 6. The challenges of group working with young men who are fathers
• 7. The possibility and promise of community groups- Implications and recommendations.  .