Postfeminism shapes the political economy of the workforce and household, constituting a re-entrenchment of traditional heterosexual gender regimes and the pressure to transgress them. Focusing on the understudied area of postfeminist masculinity, we analyze the emotional toll some fathers experience as a result of the fraught expectations to be the breadwinner, nurturing parent, and enlightened feminist spouse who completes equal domestic duties. Using empirical data of parents’ participation in a family-based health intervention, we argue that the paradoxical expectation to enact traditional gender relations and to adopt gender egalitarianism is exhausting, upsetting, and confusing for fathers. By focusing on the affective dimensions of postfeminism, we demonstrate how working to achieve the impossible expectation of doing “it all,” a bind that women have been caught in for centuries, takes an emotional toll on fathers and couples, leading to discontent at work and home, and in regard to their self-concept, parental role, and spousal relationship. We close by offering counter examples of fathers and couples who have disengaged from postfeminist parenting relations and have reached a state of contentment. Contrary to the alignment of postfeminism with positive affect, the experience of resisting postfeminist resulted in feelings of joy, pride, and satisfaction.

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后女权主义父亲的情感代价

后女权主义塑造了劳动力和家庭的政治经济，构成了传统异性恋性别制度的重新巩固和超越它们的压力。关注后女权主义男性气质这一未被充分研究的领域，我们分析了一些父亲在成为养家糊口、养育父母和完成平等家务的开明女权主义配偶的担忧中所经历的情感损失。使用父母参与以家庭为基础的健康干预的经验数据，我们认为制定传统性别关系和采用性别平等主义的矛盾期望对父亲来说是令人筋疲力尽、令人沮丧和困惑的。通过关注后女权主义的情感维度，我们展示了如何努力实现“做所有事情，” 几个世纪以来，女性一直陷入这种困境，对父亲和夫妻造成情感上的伤害，导致对工作和家庭的不满，以及对她们的自我概念、父母角色和配偶关系的不满。我们通过提供一些父亲和夫妇脱离后女权主义养育关系并达到满足状态的反例来结束。与后女权主义与积极情感的一致相反，抵制后女权主义的经历导致了快乐、自豪和满足的感觉。我们通过提供一些父亲和夫妇脱离后女权主义养育关系并达到满足状态的反例来结束。与后女权主义与积极情感的一致相反，抵制后女权主义的经历导致了快乐、自豪和满足的感觉。我们通过提供一些父亲和夫妇脱离后女权主义养育关系并达到满足状态的反例来结束。与后女权主义与积极情感的一致相反，抵制后女权主义的经历导致了快乐、自豪和满足的感觉。