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SUMMARY:A discourse of ‘we’: gendered subjectivities and caregiving in
  UK ‘stay-at-home-dads’ - Dr Abigail Locke\, University of Bradford
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CONTACT:Johanna M Lukate
DESCRIPTION:Using a critical social psychological lens\, this current work
  presents a critical discursive analysis from a research project on stay-a
 t-home dads in the UK. Stay-At-Home-Dads are an apparent growing phenomena
  within the UK with more fathers reportedly taking on the primary caregivi
 ng role.  Reporting on interviews with fathers who had become the primary 
 caregiver for their children\, the analysis uncovered a discourse of ‘we
 ’. That is\, whilst the fathers were performing the majority of the chil
 dcare\, when it came to discussions around their families and decision mak
 ing in their parenting roles\, the fathers talked in a discourse of partne
 rship and joint decision making with their breadwinning partners.  The pap
 er explores this partnership discourse in more detail\, relating it to par
 enting norms and gendered subjectivities.  As social policy towards parent
 ing evolves towards ideals of ‘shared parenting’\, an in-depth underst
 anding of caregiving fathers is an important task. 
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology\, Downing
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