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Fatherhood and the British Working Class, 1865-1914
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Artikel-Nr:
9781107446861
Veröffentl:
2018
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
08.08.2018
Seiten:
246
Autor:
Julie-Marie Strange
Gewicht:
362 g
Format:
229x152x13 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Julie-Marie Strange is Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester. She is author of Death, Grief and Poverty, 1870-1914 (Cambridge, 2005). Strange has appeared on Radio 4's Woman's Hour on the subject of fathers, and Thinking Allowed on the working-class Christmas. She also appeared in BBC4's 'A Century of Fatherhood' (Testimony Films).
A pioneering study of Victorian and Edwardian fatherhood, investigating what being, and having, a father meant to working-class people.
Introduction: O father, where art thou?; 1. Love and toil: fatherhood, providing and attachment; 2. Love and want: unemployment, failure and the fragile father; 3. Man and home: the interpersonal dynamics of fathers at home; 4. Front stage values, back stage lives: family togetherness, respectability and 'real' fathers; 5. Funny talk: laughter, family and fathering; 6. The fond father: protection, authority, reconciliation; Conclusion: discovering fatherhood; Bibliography; Index.