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The ‘Good Father’

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Negotiating Fatherhood

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The second empirical chapter centralises the voices of fathers to articulate what being a father entails for them. This chapter focuses on aspirations and ambitions towards fatherhood and examines the main influences on these aspirations. I outline the theoretical implications of viewing fatherhood as a series of practices and my interest in the enactment and negotiation of good fatherhood. In so doing I address the following questions: What does fatherhood come to mean in practice? By whom, where and through what practices is good fatherhood defined? Whose or what interests are emphasised?

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    Sadly, during the course of writing up this project, Michael’s wife died of a terminal illness.

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Fletcher, T. (2020). The ‘Good Father’. In: Negotiating Fatherhood. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19784-1_4

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