Men, Families, and Poverty (eBook)

This book develops a new sociology of the intergenerational and longitudinal dynamics of men's family participation in relation to their trajectories through poverty. By addressing the ostensible absence of men from low-income families in existing literature and policy, the authors interrogate the interconnectedness of poverty, family, and place while paying explicit attention to the trajectories of men through and across low-income families and localities. Through qualitative secondary analysis of four linked datasets from research within low-income families over a twenty-year period, Hughes and Tarrant argue that there is much to be gained from examining both men's accounts of family and poverty across the lifecourse and the accounts of men experiencing family poverty. In so doing, they develop a new theoretical family lifecourse framework that accounts for the dynamic and place-based character of poverty and its implication for families. Thus, the book foregrounds the development of a more comprehensive sociology of family poverty.

Kahryn Hughes is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK. She is also Director of the Timescapes Archive, Editor-in-Chief of Sociological Research Online, and Senior Fellow of the National Centre for Research Methods, UK. She is internationally recognised for innovation in methods of Qualitative Secondary Analysis. Her substantive interests include intergenerational poverty and addiction.

Anna Tarrant is Professor of Sociology at the University of Lincoln, UK. She is also a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellow, leading a study called 'Following Young Fathers Further.' Her work examines men's family participation in low-income families. Her previous books include Fathering and Poverty (Policy Press, 2021).