Masculinity, Subjectivities, and caregiving in the British press: The case of the stay-at-home father

Locke, Abigail

doi:10.1007/978-1-137-57767-2_11

All Outputs (6)

Homer Simpsons and Mr. Mums: A Critical Perspective of Fathering Discourses (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Scholz, B., Locke, A., & Fick, S. (2016). Homer Simpsons and Mr. Mums: A Critical Perspective of Fathering Discourses.

Exploring the depths of gender, parenting and ‘work’: critical discursive psychology and the ‘missing voices’ of involved fatherhood (2016)
Journal Article
Locke, A., & Yarwood, G. (2017). Exploring the depths of gender, parenting and ‘work’: critical discursive psychology and the ‘missing voices’ of involved fatherhood. Community, Work and Family, 20(1), 4-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2016.1252722

This paper sets out to capture the missing voices of fathers in discussions around gender, parenting and work. Using Critical Discursive Psychology (CDP), a qualitative methodology that frames discourse, language and action as socially situated, the... Read More about Exploring the depths of gender, parenting and ‘work’: critical discursive psychology and the ‘missing voices’ of involved fatherhood.

Concealment, communication and stigma: The perspectives of HIV-positive immigrant Black African men and their partners living in the United Kingdom (2016)
Journal Article
Owuor, J. O., Locke, A., Heyman, B., & Clifton, A. (2016). Concealment, communication and stigma: The perspectives of HIV-positive immigrant Black African men and their partners living in the United Kingdom. Journal of Health Psychology, 21(12), 3079-3091. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105315593379

'For some people it isn’t a choice, it’s just how it happens': accounts of ‘delayed’ motherhood among middle-class women in the UK (2016)
Journal Article
Budds, K., Locke, A., & Burr, V. (2016). 'For some people it isn’t a choice, it’s just how it happens': accounts of ‘delayed’ motherhood among middle-class women in the UK. Feminism and Psychology, 26(2), 170-187. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353516639615

Over the past few decades the number of women having their first babies over the age of 35 in the United Kingdom has increased. Women’s timing of motherhood is invariably bound up with a discourse of “choice”, and in this paper we consider the role c... Read More about 'For some people it isn’t a choice, it’s just how it happens': accounts of ‘delayed’ motherhood among middle-class women in the UK.

Communicating choice: an exploration of mothers’ experiences of birth (2016)
Journal Article
Hallam, J. L., Howard, C. D., Locke, A., & Thomas, M. (2016). Communicating choice: an exploration of mothers’ experiences of birth. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 34(2), 175-184. https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2015.1119260

This article gives an in-depth insight into the ways in which communication between midwives and the birthing woman shape the birth experience.

Masculinity, Subjectivities, and caregiving in the British press: The case of the stay-at-home father (2016)
Book Chapter
Locke, A. (2016). Masculinity, Subjectivities, and caregiving in the British press: The case of the stay-at-home father. In Pops in Pop Culture. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-57767-2_11

On February 17, 2009, the then leader of one of the opposition parties in the United Kingdom, Nick Clegg, was quoted as saying that the recession—the “mancession” as it has been called in some quarters—and the resulting large-scale unemployment, gave... Read More about Masculinity, Subjectivities, and caregiving in the British press: The case of the stay-at-home father.