Full Description
The five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, are well-known for their extensive welfare system and gender equality which provides both parents with opportunities to earn and care for their children. In this topical book, expert scholars from the Nordic countries, as well as UK and the US, demonstrate how modern fatherhood is supported in the Nordic setting through family and social policies, and how these contribute to shaping and influencing the images, roles and practices of fathers in a diversity of family settings and variations of fatherhoods. This comprehensive volume will have wide international appeal for those who look to Nordic countries and their success in creating gender equal societies.
Contents
Introduction ‾ Guðný Björk Eydal and Tine Rostgaard;
Theme 1: Fathers, families and family policies;
Fathering: the influence of ideational factors for male fertility behaviour ‾ Tine Rostgaard and Rasmus Juul Møberg;
Nordic family law: new framework, new fatherhoods ‾ Hrefna Friðriksdóttir;
Fathers rights to family cash benefits in Nordic countries ‾ Mia Hakovirta, Anita Haataja, Guðný Björk Eydal and Tine Rostgaard;
Theme 2: Fathers in everyday life: culture, work and care;
Time use of Finnish fathers: do institutions matter? ‾ Minna Ylikännö, Hannu Pääkkönen and Mia Hakovirta;
Parental leave and classed fathering practices in Norway ‾ Berit Brandth and Elin Kvande;
Negotiating leave in the workplace: leave practices and masculinity constructions among Danish fathers ‾ Lotte Bloksgaard;
Gender regime, attitudes towards childcare and actual involvement in childcare among fathers ‾ Mikael Nordenmark;
Theme 3: Constructing fatherhood in different family settings;
Fathering as a learning process: breaking new ground in familiar territory ‾ Steen Baagøe Nielsen and Allan Westerling;
Minority ethnic men and fatherhood in a Danish context ‾ Anika Liversage;
Making space for fatherhood in gay men's lives in Norway ‾ Arnfinn J. Andersen;
The long-term impacts of early paternal involvement in childcare in Denmark: what happens after nuclear family dissolution ‾ Mai Heide Ottosen;
Theme 4: Caring fathers and paid parental leave policies;
The coming and going of the father's quota in Denmark: consequences for fathers' parental leave take-up ‾ Tine Rostgaard and Mette Lausten;
Policy goals and obstacles for fathers' parental leave in Finland ‾ Minna Salmi and Johanna Lammi-Taskula;
Caring fathers and parental leave in prosperous times and times of crisis: the case of Iceland ‾ Guðný Björk Eydal and Ingólfur V. Gíslason;
Parental leave use for different fathers: a study of the impact of three Swedish parental leave reforms ‾ Ann-Zofie Duvander and Mats Johansson;
Theme 5: International reflections on findings;
Parental leave and fathers: extending and deepening the knowledge base ‾ Janet Gornick;
Nordic fathers: tracking diversity and complexity ‾ Margaret O'Brien;
Conclusions: 'What is constructed can be transformed' ‾ Guðný Björk Eydal and Tine Rostgaard;
