TY - BOOK ID - 85463262 TI - Fatherhood and the British working class, 1865-1914 PY - 2015 SN - 1316255999 1316237079 1316254097 1316250318 1316252205 1316235181 1316248429 1316027058 1107084873 1107446864 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Fatherhood KW - Working class families KW - Working class men KW - Families KW - Men KW - Parenthood KW - History KW - Great Britain KW - Social conditions UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85463262 AB - A pioneering study of Victorian and Edwardian fatherhood, investigating what being, and having, a father meant to working-class people. Based on working-class autobiography, the book challenges dominant assumptions about absent or 'feckless' fathers, and reintegrates the paternal figure within the emotional life of families. Locating autobiography within broader social and cultural commentary, Julie-Marie Strange considers material culture, everyday practice, obligation, duty and comedy as sites for the development and expression of complex emotional lives. Emphasising the importance of separating men as husbands from men as fathers, Strange explores how emotional ties were formed between fathers and their children, the models of fatherhood available to working-class men, and the ways in which fathers interacted with children inside and outside the home. She explodes the myth that working-class interiorities are inaccessible or unrecoverable, and locates life stories in the context of other sources, including social surveys, visual culture and popular fiction. ER -