Dear all, I have just dipped into the new book I bought at the Hobart
Conference, written by
Deborah Lupton and Lesley Barclay, called Constructing Fatherhood,
discourses and experiences. I have read much of Lupton's work before in
other areas and find this an interesting addition in terms of subject
matter. Though this book was published in 1997 it is new to me.
The book is really well set out, but not for the fainthearted, especially
if they are not well read in post structuralist literature, although it is
certainly not as 'dense' as some! I have skimmed some of all chapters and
can't wait for some time to really get into it. I am keen especially to
read in greater depth the chapter titled "Fatherhood in the Popular Media"
which goes into how men and fathers in particular are represented in sit
coms, dramas, advertising on tv, etc. and how this has evolved over time.
It makes a nice counterpoint for me when I'm reading and working with
representations of motherhood.
If you are interested in this topic, and have read Tom Morton's Altered
Mates (a less scholarly but no less informative work also puclished in
1997), then I think this book will interest you. And as the authors
suggest in their introduction, it helps to fill a hiatius about writings in
masculinities that have tended to under-represent the importance of
fatherhood in discourses about men. If there is one point of curiosity for
me it is in the turnaround. Once women were studied by men for all sorts
of purposes and feminism gave women's studies back to women. Now women are
studying men, particularly fathers. Are we qualified or authorised, or are
we the new colonists???
Cheers, Trish
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