Anna joined CAVA at the end of 2003 after securing a Marie Curie Post-doctoral fellowship. With Fiona Williams, she is conducting a comparative project on migrant domestic workers in the EU. Anna Gavanas received her B.A. from Göteborg University, Sweden and her PhD in Social Anthropology from Stockholm University, Sweden. She has taught at several Swedish Universities and lectured widely in the U.S. and Europe on issues of masculinity, family, marriage and sexual politics. Anna has previously worked on the cross-disciplinary project "Fathers and the State", based at Stockholm University's Center for Comparative Gender Studies, and at the State University of New York in Stony Brook. Her
book, "Fatherhood Politics in the United States: Masculinity,
Sexuality, Race and Marriage" was published in 2004 by
University of Illinois Press: Fatherhood Politics in the United States: Masculinity, Sexuality, Race and Marriage. University of Illinois Press: Urbana and Chicago, USA Buy this book: http://www.press.uillinois.edu/s04/gavanas.html Are fathers being marginalised in the contemporary family? Responding to fears that they are, the self-proclaimed "fatherhood responsibility movement" (FRM) has worked since the mid-1990s to put fatherhood at the centre of US national politics. Anna Gavanas' Fatherhood Politics in the United States analyses the processes, reveals the internal struggles and traces the myths that drive this powerful movement. Unlike previous investigations that rely on literary or other secondary sources, Fatherhood Politics works from primary ethnographic material to present a wider range of voices and actors. Interacting with and interviewing members of the most powerful and well-known national fatherhood organisations, Gavanas observed promise-keeper rallies, men's workshops and conferences on masculinity, fatherhood and marriage. Providing a detailed overview of the different organisations involved and their various rhetorical strategies, Gavanas breaks down the FRM in to two major wings. The "pro-marriage wing" sees marriage as the key to solving all social problems, while the "fragile family" organisations worry about unemployment, racism, and discrimination. Gavanas uses her extensive anthropological fieldwork as the basis for discussions of gender, sexuality, and race in her analysis of these competing voices. Taking us inside the internal struggles, tensions and political machinations of the FRM, Gavanas offers a behind the scenes look at a movement having real impact on current social policy. Fatherhood Politics is an essential work for anyone interested in the politics of masculinity, parenthood, marriage, race and sexuality. April
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