6 Hegemonic, caring or hybrid fathers? The case of Polish fathers of adult children in ‘the empty nest’

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of figures and tables v
4. Notes on contributors vi
5. Acknowledgements viii
6. Foreword ix
7. PART I Introduction to caring fatherhood
8. 1 Why study fathers and care? 3
9. 2 The who, what and how of care in caring fatherhood: an ecological care ethics approach 21
10. PART II Understandings and practices of good fatherhood and care
11. 3 ‘He is our handyman’: young people’s narratives on caring fatherhood and family life in the Faroe Islands 45
12. 4 Changing fatherhood and gender roles in Somali families: experiences of being fathered in Somalia and in the diaspora 62
13. 5 Moving beyond the narrative of marginalised fatherhood: Russian fathers’ accounts of nonresident fathering after family separation 79
14. 6 Hegemonic, caring or hybrid fathers? The case of Polish fathers of adult children in ‘the empty nest’ 97
15. 7 Berry-picking fathers and burdened mothers: parenting modes in dual-income households of urban China during the COVID-19 pandemic 114
16. PART III Exploring what facilitates or inhibits fathers’ care
17. 8 Fathers on the ‘night shift’? Understanding caring fatherhood through parents’ interpretative repertoires of night-time care 135
18. 9 What happens when fathers are at home? Learning from families’ accounts of COVID-19 lockdown in the UK and South Africa 153
19. 10 ‘Being there’ as providers and caregivers: caring masculinities in parenting and partnering among young fathers in the UK 175
20. 11 Gendered framings of responsibility for care and the availability of leave policies for fathers from a global perspective 195
21. 12 Gender role attitudes, perceptions of parenthood and father’s parental leave use in Finland 212
22. PART IV Minoritised fathers and care
23. 13 Syrian refugee dads in the UK: gendered practices of ‘involvement’ 233
24. 14 Reconstruction of fatherhood in a strange land: exploring fathering practices of Chinese migrants in Spain 249
25. 15 Refugee fathers’ parenting to protect, nurture and train under resettlement in Sweden 266
26. 16 Queer fathers and parents’ caring path to parenthood in the Netherlands and Switzerland 282
27. 17 Fathers caring in families with children with disabilities 301
28. 18 Accounting for lack of emotional engagement: adults reconceptualising fatherhood 321
29. 19 Conclusions: Towards more nuanced understandings of fathers’ care 338
30. Index 349