Marzano, L., Capdevila, R., Ciclitira, K. and Lazard, L. (2009) Justice and care: theorising the 'new man' and the 'caring father'. Psychology of Women Section Review. 11(2), pp. 11-20. 1466–3724.
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Abstract:
This paper considers ways in which the ‘New Man’ and the ‘Caring Father’ are conceptualized suggesting that discourses of justice and care, which draw on mainstream psychological theorizing, have been intimately bound with a gendered notion and construction of these new and contemporary masculinities. Lawrence Kohlberg (1971, 1975), in his theory of moral development, identified the highest level of attainment as one which makes use of universal principles of justice and human rights. In response Carol Gilligan (1982) has argued that most women operate primarily by an ethic of ‘care’. Whilst we would not want to subscribe to either of these psychological representations, we argue that these discourses are implied in dominant contemporary constructions of fatherhood. The particular tensions in representations of ‘fathers’ rights’ and ‘new men’ are both produced in and reproduce constructions like ‘care’ and ‘justice’. In turn, these become implicated in practices and discourses of fatherhood in a range of arenas. In this paper we explore such tensions in three of these arenas: fathers’ rights organisations, the military, and the prison system.
Uncontrolled Keywords:
Masculinities; gender; parenthood;fathers
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Creators:
Marzano, L., Capdevila, R., Ciclitira, K. and Lazard, L.
Publisher:
British Psychological Society
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Health & Society > Psychology
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Group > Social and Cultural Research in Psychology Group
Faculties > Faculty of Health & Society > Psychology
Research Centres > Centre for Psychology and Social Sciences
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Group > Social and Cultural Research in Psychology Group
Faculties > Faculty of Health & Society > Psychology
Research Centres > Centre for Psychology and Social Sciences
Date:
2009
Date Type:
Publication
Page Range:
pp. 11-20
Journal or Publication Title:
Psychology of Women Section Review
Volume:
11
Number:
2
Language:
English
ISSN:
1466–3724
Status:
Published / Disseminated
Refereed:
Yes
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