C Scheibling
Biographic Data
| ID | 43319 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Scheibling |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Scheibling |
| SIGNATURE | SCHEIBLING C |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8378-5584 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Playful Performativity? Considering the Sociological Relevance of the “Performative Male” Trend
The online meme of the “performative male” is a composite of interests, behaviors, and props that convey a new “sensitive” man. As a viral and satirical trend, the performative male phenomenon raises important questions around gender performances and heteronormative relationship expectations. In this essay, we describe what the performative male is, detailing its online development, its key characteristics, and its embodiment in offline spaces. W…
Mobilizing family science in the digital era
As digital platforms increasingly shape how families connect and gather information, family science must adapt its communication strategies to remain relevant and impactful. The Journal of Family Theory & Review (JFTR) Digital Scholarship Board (DSB) was created to translate scholarly insights into accessible content for scholars, practitioners, and the public. Using conceptual scaffolding from Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model and insights ab…
The cognitive labour of being a ‘good’ dad
Compromising Fatherhood
Objective Our study examines how fathers perceive and negotiate incongruities between their personal gender identities as men compared to their interpersonal gender role performances as fathers . Background Fatherhood today is shaped strongly by contradictions around gender expectations. Many fathers feel ambivalent toward traditional masculine norms that undermine their aspirations to be an involved parent. Understanding how fathers grapple with…
Gender, work, and the family's morning rush hour
Dual-earner parents face the challenge of getting children ready for school or daycare while often simultaneously preparing for work. Although this morning routine is at the heart of the work–family intersection, it is understudied in relation to the gendered division of labor and as a potential stressor in parents’ lives. In this study, we examine who is responsible for and experiences strain from preparing children for the day. Drawing on a sam…
Lovers in a Digital Time
Shifting toward intensive parenting culture? A comparative analysis of top mommy blogs and dad blogs
Fathers stepping up? A cross-national comparison of fathers’ domestic labour and parents’ satisfaction with the division of domestic labour during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted work and family life around the world. For parents, this upending meant a potential re-negotiation of the ‘status quo’ in the gendered division of labour. A comparative lens provides extended understandings of changes in fathers’ domestic work based in socio-cultural context – in assessing the size and consequences of change in domestic labour in relation to the type of work-care regime. Using novel harmonized data…
Who Are the Real Team Players in the Sport Marriage
Why Can’t Boys Be #LikeAGirl?”
HealthyDads
Objective This study examines the thematic content and social‐health orientation of fathers' online blogs about parenting, health, and fitness. Background Social media provide avenues for parents to contribute to public discourse about parenthood and to offer guidance on health‐related matters. Concerns about familial well‐being have been central to parenting discourse for ages, but little is known about how parents write and talk about health on…
The Division of Domestic Labor before and during the Covid‐19 Pandemic in Canada
The COVID-19 pandemic created rapid, wide-ranging, and significant disruptions to work and family life. Accordingly, these dramatic changes may have reshaped parents' gendered division of labor in the short term. Using data from 1,234 Canadian parents in different-sex relationships, we compare retrospective reports of perceived sharing in how housework and childcare tasks were split prior to the declaration of the pandemic to assessments of equal…
Variation in Masculinities and Fathering Behaviors
Real Heroes Care
Dad bloggers' are an emerging community of fathers in North America. These men use social media to document and discuss their experiences as parents and gather annually at the Dad 2.0 Summit. A central topic of discussion both online and offline is how involved fathers negotiate and rework gender roles and expectations. This study examines how dad bloggers create and engage with discourse about masculinities. Using blog posts, fieldwork observati…
Doing Fatherhood Online
Online discourse about parenting has grown with the expansion of social media technologies. With a community of 'dad bloggers' developing in North America, further investigation into how men write about fatherhood on the Internet is needed. In this article, I present a qualitative analysis of 201 blog posts written by 40 dad bloggers. Adopting a social psychological perspective, I examine how fatherhood is constructed across lines of identity, ex…
Standing up for Community through Thick and Thin
The culture of fatherhood 2.0
This article presents a cyber-ethnographic study of a community of North American men who write parenting blogs—known as “dad bloggers.” Informed by sociological and feminist media studies literature on parenting culture and digital public spheres, I examine dad bloggers as a social group who are collectively responding and contributing to contemporary cultural models of fatherhood. Drawing on data from fieldwork observations, blog posts, and int…
Man Up but Stay Smooth
In this article, we address the question of how masculinities are constructed in advertising for the burgeoning market of men’s grooming products. We present findings from a thematic analysis of all grooming product advertisements found in Esquire magazine from 2011 to 2013. Based on the results, we emphasize the ways in which these ads construct “hybrid” and “flexible” masculinities through combining symbols and narratives relating to bodywork, …
Making the Virtual Rounds
In the “Health 2.0” era, digital media has altered how health care is conducted and how patients consume medical information. This article explores the reasons why health-care professionals create their own blogs and how they use blogging as a component of their work. We examine interviews with medical bloggers ( n = 83) featured on “Grand Rounds,” a weekly medical blog forum or “carnival,” to interpret the ways in which blogging is incorporated …
Race, gender, and the Billboard Top 40 charts between 1997 and 2007
An earlier study published in Popular Music and Society examined the gender-related trends on the Billboard Hot 100 music charts between 1997 and 2007 (Lafrance, Worcester, and Burns). Taking frequency distributions as indicators of gender equality, the authors found that male hits on both the sales and the airplay charts outnumbered female hits by a wide margin. More specifically, their findings demonstrated that male artists had more extreme hi…
The Division of Domestic Labor before and during the Covid‐19 Pandemic in Canada
The COVID-19 pandemic created rapid, wide-ranging, and significant disruptions to work and family life. Accordingly, these dramatic changes may have reshaped parents' gendered division of labor in the short term. Using data from 1,234 Canadian parents in different-sex relationships, we compare retrospective reports of perceived sharing in how housework and childcare tasks were split prior to the declaration of the pandemic to assessments of equal…
Real Heroes Care
Dad bloggers' are an emerging community of fathers in North America. These men use social media to document and discuss their experiences as parents and gather annually at the Dad 2.0 Summit. A central topic of discussion both online and offline is how involved fathers negotiate and rework gender roles and expectations. This study examines how dad bloggers create and engage with discourse about masculinities. Using blog posts, fieldwork observati…
Fathers stepping up? A cross-national comparison of fathers’ domestic labour and parents’ satisfaction with the division of domestic labour during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted work and family life around the world. For parents, this upending meant a potential re-negotiation of the ‘status quo’ in the gendered division of labour. A comparative lens provides extended understandings of changes in fathers’ domestic work based in socio-cultural context – in assessing the size and consequences of change in domestic labour in relation to the type of work-care regime. Using novel harmonized data…
Variation in Masculinities and Fathering Behaviors
Man Up but Stay Smooth
In this article, we address the question of how masculinities are constructed in advertising for the burgeoning market of men’s grooming products. We present findings from a thematic analysis of all grooming product advertisements found in Esquire magazine from 2011 to 2013. Based on the results, we emphasize the ways in which these ads construct “hybrid” and “flexible” masculinities through combining symbols and narratives relating to bodywork, …
Doing Fatherhood Online
Online discourse about parenting has grown with the expansion of social media technologies. With a community of 'dad bloggers' developing in North America, further investigation into how men write about fatherhood on the Internet is needed. In this article, I present a qualitative analysis of 201 blog posts written by 40 dad bloggers. Adopting a social psychological perspective, I examine how fatherhood is constructed across lines of identity, ex…
Why Can’t Boys Be #LikeAGirl?”
Gender, work, and the family's morning rush hour
Dual-earner parents face the challenge of getting children ready for school or daycare while often simultaneously preparing for work. Although this morning routine is at the heart of the work–family intersection, it is understudied in relation to the gendered division of labor and as a potential stressor in parents’ lives. In this study, we examine who is responsible for and experiences strain from preparing children for the day. Drawing on a sam…
The culture of fatherhood 2.0
This article presents a cyber-ethnographic study of a community of North American men who write parenting blogs—known as “dad bloggers.” Informed by sociological and feminist media studies literature on parenting culture and digital public spheres, I examine dad bloggers as a social group who are collectively responding and contributing to contemporary cultural models of fatherhood. Drawing on data from fieldwork observations, blog posts, and int…
Race, gender, and the Billboard Top 40 charts between 1997 and 2007
An earlier study published in Popular Music and Society examined the gender-related trends on the Billboard Hot 100 music charts between 1997 and 2007 (Lafrance, Worcester, and Burns). Taking frequency distributions as indicators of gender equality, the authors found that male hits on both the sales and the airplay charts outnumbered female hits by a wide margin. More specifically, their findings demonstrated that male artists had more extreme hi…
Race, gender, and the Billboard Top 40 charts between 1997 and 2007
An earlier study published in Popular Music and Society examined the gender-related trends on the Billboard Hot 100 music charts between 1997 and 2007 (Lafrance, Worcester, and Burns). Taking frequency distributions as indicators of gender equality, the authors found that male hits on both the sales and the airplay charts outnumbered female hits by a wide margin. More specifically, their findings demonstrated that male artists had more extreme hi…
Making the Virtual Rounds
In the “Health 2.0” era, digital media has altered how health care is conducted and how patients consume medical information. This article explores the reasons why health-care professionals create their own blogs and how they use blogging as a component of their work. We examine interviews with medical bloggers ( n = 83) featured on “Grand Rounds,” a weekly medical blog forum or “carnival,” to interpret the ways in which blogging is incorporated …
The culture of fatherhood 2.0
This article presents a cyber-ethnographic study of a community of North American men who write parenting blogs—known as “dad bloggers.” Informed by sociological and feminist media studies literature on parenting culture and digital public spheres, I examine dad bloggers as a social group who are collectively responding and contributing to contemporary cultural models of fatherhood. Drawing on data from fieldwork observations, blog posts, and int…
Man Up but Stay Smooth
In this article, we address the question of how masculinities are constructed in advertising for the burgeoning market of men’s grooming products. We present findings from a thematic analysis of all grooming product advertisements found in Esquire magazine from 2011 to 2013. Based on the results, we emphasize the ways in which these ads construct “hybrid” and “flexible” masculinities through combining symbols and narratives relating to bodywork, …
HealthyDads
Objective This study examines the thematic content and social‐health orientation of fathers' online blogs about parenting, health, and fitness. Background Social media provide avenues for parents to contribute to public discourse about parenthood and to offer guidance on health‐related matters. Concerns about familial well‐being have been central to parenting discourse for ages, but little is known about how parents write and talk about health on…
The Division of Domestic Labor before and during the Covid‐19 Pandemic in Canada
The COVID-19 pandemic created rapid, wide-ranging, and significant disruptions to work and family life. Accordingly, these dramatic changes may have reshaped parents' gendered division of labor in the short term. Using data from 1,234 Canadian parents in different-sex relationships, we compare retrospective reports of perceived sharing in how housework and childcare tasks were split prior to the declaration of the pandemic to assessments of equal…
Variation in Masculinities and Fathering Behaviors
Real Heroes Care
Dad bloggers' are an emerging community of fathers in North America. These men use social media to document and discuss their experiences as parents and gather annually at the Dad 2.0 Summit. A central topic of discussion both online and offline is how involved fathers negotiate and rework gender roles and expectations. This study examines how dad bloggers create and engage with discourse about masculinities. Using blog posts, fieldwork observati…
Doing Fatherhood Online
Online discourse about parenting has grown with the expansion of social media technologies. With a community of 'dad bloggers' developing in North America, further investigation into how men write about fatherhood on the Internet is needed. In this article, I present a qualitative analysis of 201 blog posts written by 40 dad bloggers. Adopting a social psychological perspective, I examine how fatherhood is constructed across lines of identity, ex…
Standing up for Community through Thick and Thin
Why Can’t Boys Be #LikeAGirl?”
Shifting toward intensive parenting culture? A comparative analysis of top mommy blogs and dad blogs
Fathers stepping up? A cross-national comparison of fathers’ domestic labour and parents’ satisfaction with the division of domestic labour during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted work and family life around the world. For parents, this upending meant a potential re-negotiation of the ‘status quo’ in the gendered division of labour. A comparative lens provides extended understandings of changes in fathers’ domestic work based in socio-cultural context – in assessing the size and consequences of change in domestic labour in relation to the type of work-care regime. Using novel harmonized data…
Who Are the Real Team Players in the Sport Marriage
Lovers in a Digital Time
Mobilizing family science in the digital era
As digital platforms increasingly shape how families connect and gather information, family science must adapt its communication strategies to remain relevant and impactful. The Journal of Family Theory & Review (JFTR) Digital Scholarship Board (DSB) was created to translate scholarly insights into accessible content for scholars, practitioners, and the public. Using conceptual scaffolding from Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model and insights ab…
The cognitive labour of being a ‘good’ dad
Compromising Fatherhood
Objective Our study examines how fathers perceive and negotiate incongruities between their personal gender identities as men compared to their interpersonal gender role performances as fathers . Background Fatherhood today is shaped strongly by contradictions around gender expectations. Many fathers feel ambivalent toward traditional masculine norms that undermine their aspirations to be an involved parent. Understanding how fathers grapple with…
Gender, work, and the family's morning rush hour
Dual-earner parents face the challenge of getting children ready for school or daycare while often simultaneously preparing for work. Although this morning routine is at the heart of the work–family intersection, it is understudied in relation to the gendered division of labor and as a potential stressor in parents’ lives. In this study, we examine who is responsible for and experiences strain from preparing children for the day. Drawing on a sam…
Playful Performativity? Considering the Sociological Relevance of the “Performative Male” Trend
The online meme of the “performative male” is a composite of interests, behaviors, and props that convey a new “sensitive” man. As a viral and satirical trend, the performative male phenomenon raises important questions around gender performances and heteronormative relationship expectations. In this essay, we describe what the performative male is, detailing its online development, its key characteristics, and its embodiment in offline spaces. W…
Sociology (13 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (5 works)