Pops in Pop Culture Fatherhood, Masculinity, and the New Man

The definitions of fatherhood have shifted in the twenty-first century as paternal subjectivities, conflicts, and desires have registered in new ways in the contemporary family. This collection investigates these sites of change through various lenses fro

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Edited by

Elizabeth Podnieks

Pops in Pop Culture

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Pops in Pop Culture Fatherhood, Masculinity, and the New Man

Edited by

Elizabeth Podnieks

Palgrave

macmillan

POPS IN POP CULTURE Selection and editorial content © Elizabeth Podnieks 2016 Individual chapters © their respective contributors 2016 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2016 978-1-137-58156-3 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission. In accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published 2016 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of Nature America, Inc., One New York Plaza, Suite 4500, New York, NY 10004-1562. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world.

ISBN 978-1-349-56930-4 E-PDF ISBN: 978-1-137-57767-2 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-57767-2

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Podnieks, Elizabeth. editor. Title: Pops in pop culture : fatherhood, masculinity, and the new man / edited by Elizabeth Podnieks. Description: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2015027053 | Subjects: LCSH: Fathers in mass media. | Masculinity in mass media. Classification: LCC P96.F38 P67 2015 | DDC 302.23085/1—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015027053 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library.

For Ints Podnieks and Ian R. Smith

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Contents Foreword Andrea Doucet

ix

Preface

xiii

Acknowledgments

xvii

Introduction: Pops in Pop Context Elizabeth Podnieks

1

Section I: Self-Defining Dads: Autobiography, Paternal Lessons, and Narrative Performance 1

Pappahandbooks: Guidebooks for Dads in Twenty-First Century Sweden Helena Wahlström Henriksson

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Fatherhood, Feminism, and Failure in Louis C.K.’s Comedy Peter C. Kunze

3

“Daddy Time All the Time”: Representations of Involved Fatherhood in Contemporary Dadoirs Elizabeth Podnieks

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Daddyblogs Know Best: Histories of Fatherhood in the Cyber Age May Friedman

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Section II: “Real” Men: Brawn, Power, and Protection 5

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Ads and Dads: TV Commercials and Co