Meeting the Challenges of Intensive Parenting Culture: Gender, Risk Management and the Moral Parent

Sociology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-40

  Shirani, Fiona ^a   Henwood, Karen ^a   Coltart, Carrie ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fathering; gender; intensive parenting interpretive analysis; risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857317788     PISSN: 00380385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0038038511416169     Document Type: Article

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