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Australian news media constructions and categorisations of primary caregiving fathers
Discourse & Society ( IF 2.4 ) Pub Date : 2019-08-15 , DOI: 10.1177/0957926519870045
Sarah C Hunter 1 , Damien W Riggs 1 , Rebecca Feo 1
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Increasing cultural and academic attention is being paid to fathers who assume the primary caregiving role, stemming from interest into whether contemporary masculinity is evolving away from traditional, hegemonic ideals. This study utilises a Discourse Analysis informed by Membership Categorisation Analysis to explore how this relatively new category – primary caregiving father – is discursively constructed in 193 Australian newsprint media articles. The analysis identified that the category of ‘primary caregiving father’ was defended and discursively managed so as to remain consistent with the activities and predicates typically associated with the category ‘normative man’. This was routinely achieved in two ways. First, descriptions of traditional uninvolved fathers were contrasted unfavourably against the ‘new’ primary caregiving father, working to position primary caregiving fathers as the new norm. Second, accounts of men’s decision to take on the primary caregiving role routinely relied on the category-tied predicates of rationality and stoicism, thereby working to position primary caregiving fathers as normatively masculine. Overall, this article concludes that, despite fathers taking on roles inconsistent with normative gendered categorisation, constructions of fatherhood in news media routinely work to align (or re-align) primary caregiving fathers within hegemonic ideals. Therefore, while masculinity is evolving and shifting, it remains within the bounds of what is considered hegemonic.

中文翻译:

澳大利亚新闻媒体对主要照顾父亲的构建和分类

越来越多的文化和学术关注正在扮演主要照顾角色的父亲,这源于对当代男性气质是否正在远离传统的霸权理想的兴趣。本研究利用成员分类分析提供的话语分析来探索这个相对较新的类别——主要照顾父亲——是如何在 193 篇澳大利亚新闻纸媒体文章中话语构建的。分析确定,“主要照料父亲”的类别受到保护和话语管理,以与通常与“规范人”类别相关的活动和谓词保持一致。这通常通过两种方式实现。首先,对传统的不参与的父亲的描述与“新的”主要照顾父亲形成了不利的对比,努力将主要的照顾父亲定位为新规范。其次,对男性承担主要照顾角色的决定的解释通常依赖于理性和坚忍的类别绑定谓词,从而努力将主要照顾父亲定位为规范的男性化。总体而言,本文得出的结论是,尽管父亲扮演的角色与规范的性别分类不一致,但新闻媒体中的父亲身份构建通常会在霸权理想中对齐(或重新对齐)主要的照顾父亲。因此,虽然男子气概正在演变和转变,但它仍处于霸权的范围内。对男性承担主要照顾角色的决定的描述通常依赖于理性和坚忍的类别绑定谓词,从而努力将主要照顾父亲定位为规范的男性化。总体而言,本文得出的结论是,尽管父亲扮演的角色与规范的性别分类不一致,但新闻媒体中的父亲身份构建通常会在霸权理想中对齐(或重新对齐)主要的照顾父亲。因此,虽然男子气概正在演变和转变,但它仍处于霸权的范围内。对男性承担主要照顾角色的决定的描述通常依赖于理性和坚忍的类别绑定谓词,从而努力将主要照顾父亲定位为规范的男性化。总体而言,本文得出的结论是,尽管父亲扮演的角色与规范的性别分类不一致,但新闻媒体中的父亲身份构建通常会在霸权理想中对齐(或重新对齐)主要的照顾父亲。因此,虽然男子气概正在演变和转变,但它仍处于霸权的范围内。新闻媒体中的父权建构通常会在霸权主义理想中调整(或重新调整)主要的照料父亲。因此,虽然男子气概正在演变和转变,但它仍处于霸权的范围内。新闻媒体中的父权建构通常会在霸权主义理想中调整(或重新调整)主要的照料父亲。因此,虽然男子气概正在演变和转变,但它仍处于霸权的范围内。
更新日期:2019-08-15
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