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Life Course Research and Social Policies 6 Margaret O'Brien Karin Wall Editors Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality Fathers on Leave Alone Life Course Research and Social Policies Volume6 Series editors Laura Bernardi Dario Spini Jean-Michel Bonvin Life course research has been developing quickly these last decades for good reasons. Life course approaches focus on essential questions about individuals’ trajectories, longitudinal analyses, cross-fertilization across disciplines like lifespan psychology, developmental social psychology, sociology of the life course, social demography, socio-economics, social history. Life course is also at the crossroads of several fi elds of specialization like family and social relationships, migration, education, professional training and employment, and health. This Series invites academic scholars to present theoretical, methodological, and empirical advances in the analysis of the life course, and to elaborate on possible implications for society and social policies applications. More information about this series at h ttp://www.springer.com/series/10158 Margaret O’Brien (cid:129) Karin Wall Editors Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality Fathers on Leave Alone Editors Margaret O’Brien Karin Wall Thomas Coram Research Unit Institute of Social Sciences University College London University of Lisbon London , United Kingdom Lisbon , Portugal ISSN 2211-7776 ISSN 2211-7784 (electronic) Life Course Research and Social Policies ISBN 978-3-319-42968-7 ISBN 978-3-319-42970-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-42970-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016954922 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2017 . This book is published open access. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland This book is dedicated to our friends and colleagues of the International Network on Leave Policies and Research from whom we have learnt so much. We give special thanks to its founders, Fred Deven and Peter Moss, who have encouraged collaborative research between members of the network, on gender and care, particularly on fathers and leave. Thanks also to all the interviewees and fathers who participated in the eleven national studies of fathers taking leave alone. Contents 1 Fathers on Leave Alone: Setting the Scene ........................................... 1 Margaret O’Brien and Karin Wall 2 The Ethics of Care and the Radical Potential of Fathers ‘Home Alone on Leave’: Care as Practice, Relational Ontology, and Social Justice ................................................................... 11 Andrea Doucet 3 Fathers on Leave Alone in Norway: Changes and Continuities ......... 29 Elin Kvande and Berit Brandth 4 Fathers on Leave Alone in Portugal: Lived Experiences and Impact of Forerunner Fathers ........................................................ 45 Karin Wall and Mafalda Leitão 5 Fathers on Leave Alone in Quebec (Canada): The Case of Innovative, Subversive and Activist Fathers! ................................... 69 Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Nadia Lazzari Dodeler 6 Fathers on Leave Alone in Finland: Negotiations and Lived Experiences ............................................................................ 89 Johanna Lammi-Taskula 7 Fathers on Leave Alone in Spain: ‘Hey, I Want to Be Able to Do It Like That, Too’ ................................................................. 107 Gerardo Meil , Pedro Romero-Balsas , and Jesús Rogero-García 8 Fathers on Leave Alone in Sweden: Toward More Equal Parenthood? ................................................................................. 125 Ann-Zofi e Duvander , Linda Haas , and Sara Thalberg 9 Fathers on Leave Alone in Iceland: Normal Paternal Behaviour? ..... 147 Ingólfur V. Gíslason vii viii Contents 10 Fathers Taking Leave Alone in the UK – A Gift Exchange Between Mother and Father? ................................................................ 163 Margaret O’Brien and Katherine Twamley 11 Fathers on Leave Alone in France: Does Part-Time Parental Leave for Men Move Towards an Egalitarian Model? ........................ 183 Danielle Boyer 12 Fathers on Leave Alone in Switzerland: Agents of Social Change? ....................................................................... 205 Isabel Valarino 13 Fathers on Leave Alone in Japan: The Lived Experiences of the Pioneers ......................................................................................... 231 Hideki Nakazato 14 Discussion and Conclusions ................................................................... 257 Karin Wall and Margaret O’Brien Contributors Danielle Boyer Department of Research, Statistics Studies and Research Direction, Family Branch of Social Security , CNAF , Paris , France Berit Brandth Department of Sociology and Political Science , Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology , Trondheim , Norway Nadia Lazzari Dodeler Management Department , UQAR, Rimouski , Quebec , Canada Andrea Doucet Social Justice Research Institute , Brock University , St. Catharines , ON, Canada Ann-Zofi e Duvander Department of Sociology , Stockholm University , Stockholm , Sweden Ingólfur V. Gíslason F aculty of Social and Human Sciences, I celand University, Reykjavík , Iceland Linda Haas Department of Sociology , Indiana University-Indianapolis , Indianapolis , USA Elin Kvande D epartment of Sociology and Political Science, N orwegian Institute of Science and Technology , Trondheim , Norway Johanna Lammi-Taskula Children, Adolescents and Families Unit , National Institute for Health and Welfare , Helsinki , Finland Mafalda Leitão Institute of Social Sciences , University of Lisbon , Lisbon , Portugal Gerardo Meil Department of Sociology , Universidad Autónoma de Madrid , Madrid , Spain Hideki Nakazato Department of Sociology, Faculty of Letters , Konan University , Kobe , Japan ix x Contributors Margaret O’Brien Thomas Coram Research Unit , University College London , London , United Kingdom Jesús Rogero-García Department of Sociology , Universidad Autónoma de Madrid , Madrid , Spain Pedro Romero-Balsas Department of Sociology , Universidad Autónoma de Madrid , Madrid , Spain Sara Thalberg Department of Sociology , Stockholm University , Stockholm , Sweden Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay Management School , Téluq, University of Quebec , Montreal , QC , Canada Katherine Twamley Social Science Research Unit, Department of Social Science , University College London , London , UK Isabel Valarino Institute of Social Sciences , University of Lausanne , Lausanne , Switzerland Karin Wall Institute of Social Sciences , University of Lisbon , Lisbon , Portugal
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