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Title Fatherhood in contemporary discourse : focus on fathers / edited by Anna Pilińka.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Section I A: Non-fiction fathers: faatherhood in sociological, psychological, and political discourse: Fatherhood in local contexts: Confronting or confirming Westernization? masculinity and fatherhood in Indonesian lifestyle magazines -- Father managers (un)doing traditional masculinity -- Visions of fatherhood of young homosexual and bisexual men in Lithuania -- Portrayal of homosexual fathers in American children's literature since the 1990s -- Section I B: Non-fiction fathers: fatherhood in sociological, psychological, and political discourse: Fathers versus particular challenges: Fatherhood from fathers' own perspective -- "I want daddy": a father as a caregiver of a hospitalized child in the eyes of hospital staff -- Section II A: Paper papas: fatherhood in literature: Fatherhood in contemporary popular fiction: Fatherhood, masculinity and complex father-child relationships in Tim Winton's fiction -- Ouroboros of the man's world: fatherhood and the rite of passage in Mario Vargas Llosa and James Joyce -- Biological, absent, reluctant: the fathers and father figures in Nick Hornby's Slam and About a boy -- Patriarchal fathers, submissive daughters in the fiction of Margaret Atwood and Hanan Al-Shaykh -- Section II B: Paper papas: fatherhood in literature: Fatherhood in World literatures: Displays of father-apparition in contemporary context of Iranian young adult literature -- Rebels with(out) a cause and their Soviet fathers in Serhiy Zhadan's Depeche Mode -- Fathers and children in the plays of Miro Gavran -- Section III: On-screen dads: fatherhood in films: "We're his goddamn kids, too": reflecting fatherhood in public responses to the death of Robin Williams -- Masculinity and fatherhood in Ang Lee's Pushing Hands -- Section IV: Primetime pops: fatherhood in popular culture: Different notions of fatherhood in anime series Naruto and in the first part of Karl Ove Knausgard's autobiographical novel My Struggle -- My boy has reached that age when he wants to do the driving: on fathers and cars -- From Tarzan to Homer Simpson: banalization and masculine violence in contemporary societies -- Horned, emperor, pope: fathers in divination handbooks.
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Subject Fatherhood -- Psychological aspects.
Fatherhood -- Psychological aspects.
Fatherhood -- Social aspects.
Fatherhood -- Social aspects.
Fatherhood.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Fatherhood.
Added Author Pilinska, Anna, author.
ISBN 9781443891899 (electronic book)
1443891894 (electronic book)
9781443873239