Ten years ago when I was listening to, and writing about, the stories of stay-at-home dads and single fathers, many men asked me why it was that I – a woman, a feminist – was so interested in the lives of fathers. I was continually asked: Don’t feminists typically study mothers? What does feminism have to do with fatherhood? Isn’t feminism about women, after all?
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I hold the Canada Research Chair in Gender Work and Care. I am also a Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Brock University in the beautiful Niagara region of Ontario, Canada. For the last twenty years, most of my work has hovered around, and landed on, two central puzzles; the first relates to enduring gender differences in the ‘response-ability’ for care work, domestic life, and community work while the second is about how we come to know and represent ordinary and extraordinary stories. Read more...
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Hey, thanks for referencing me! I think you should have mentioned that I discussed issues where feminism has impacted men, and whether it was fully intentional or not. I really wish I could have talked about things a lot more, but I had a (roughly) 100 word count per topic and some aspects of issues over lapped.
Any time you want to discuss things from an MRA standpoint (and sociology major for that matter!) feel free to send me an email/blogpost/etc