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Rethinking Fatherhood, Law and Masculinity

Rethinking Fatherhood, Law and Masculinity . Prof. Richard Collier, University of Newcastle, UK The 3rd International Gender and Child Welfare Conference, Cardiff , 22nd April 2009. Richard.Collier@newcastle.ac.uk. 1. Setting the Scene: Three Contexts.

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Rethinking Fatherhood, Law and Masculinity

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  1. Rethinking Fatherhood, Law and Masculinity Prof. Richard Collier, University of Newcastle, UK The 3rd International Gender and Child Welfare Conference, Cardiff , 22nd April 2009. Richard.Collier@newcastle.ac.uk

  2. 1. Setting the Scene: Three Contexts • Fatherhood, Law and Policy – Developments in Law • Fathers’ Rights and Post-Separation Parenting • The Research Base – Fathers, Law, Contact, Masculinities, Parenting Cultures ...

  3. 2. Approaching Fathers’ Rights Critiques of Fathers’ Rights Activism: The ‘Ethic of Justice Strikes Back’ And Yet - Unanswered Questions

  4. 3. Recasting the Questions A Reading: Father’s Rights in Context ... The evolution of fathers’ rights politics 1. Rights, Justice, Care: Fatherhood, Men and Masculinities 2. Policy, Emotion and Separation: ‘micro- politics’ of contact 3. Impact and Politics

  5. 4. Transforming Fatherhood, Gender and the Limits of Law 1. Social / Legal Context – Fragmenting Fatherhood (‘how relationships within families ... Are influenced by gender’) 2. Re-moralising Fatherhood? (‘gender cannot be considered in isolation’) 3. The ‘Bigger Picture’ (‘variable, contested and changing social meanings ... ‘)

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