Anne Hovgaard Jørgensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4421087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Hovgaard Jørgensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne Hovgaard |
| FAMILY NAME | Jørgensen |
| SIGNATURE | JØRGENSEN A H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-0948-002X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘I am a strong man if I can deal with my feelings’
This article examines how contemporary Danish fathers navigate shifting emotional expectations of fatherhood. Drawing on ethnographically informed interviews, we explore how men engage therapeutic vocabularies to reinterpret inherited emotional legacies and craft new paternal identities. Three intensive cases illustrate how therapy becomes a resource for developing emotional reflexivity, reworking boundaries between traditional and emerging mascu…
Standing Firm Against the Stickiness of Care
This article examines how expectant and new Danish parents are positioned within gendered frameworks in universal-access parenting courses. We argue that these courses, despite claims of gender-neutrality, reproduce gender as an absent-present history. On the one hand, the discourse of shared parenting remains prominent, emphasizing the equal importance of both parents. On the other hand, unequal ideals of fatherhood vis-à-vis motherhood continue…
Manage your emotions! Encouraging parents to engage in introspective analysis and help seeking
In the Danish context, a more recent risk-preventive parent-child policy agenda has paved the way for an emotionally normative model of parenting support, emphasising parents’ mentalisation capabilities, attachment patterns and emotional self-regulation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, this article examines how frontline workers in Danish health visitor services have not only adopted this agenda but also actively reshaped and ex…
Cultivating parental virtuosi
This article analyses how universal parenting courses for first-time parents in Danish municipalities represent measures to cultivate parents’ skills in ‘how to parent’. The aim of such courses is to support all new parents in the transition to parenthood, to teach parents about early child development, and to guide parents in managing their emotions. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, we address how the courses end up addressing a…
Muslim Fathers and Mistrusted Masculinity in Danish Schools
Muslim Fathers and Mistrusted Masculinity in Danish Schools
Overcoming mistrusted masculinity
This ethnographic study investigates cooperation between homes and schools in a Danish context from the perspective of ‘ethnic minority fathers’. I analyse how experiences of an ‘implicit’ mistrust can make ethnic minority fathers reluctant to cooperate with child institutions such as schools. It is argued that this mistrust is related to a hegemonic negative image of these fathers as oppressive, aggressive, and/or absent and careless. To concept…
Cultivating parental virtuosi
This article analyses how universal parenting courses for first-time parents in Danish municipalities represent measures to cultivate parents’ skills in ‘how to parent’. The aim of such courses is to support all new parents in the transition to parenthood, to teach parents about early child development, and to guide parents in managing their emotions. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, we address how the courses end up addressing a…
Manage your emotions! Encouraging parents to engage in introspective analysis and help seeking
In the Danish context, a more recent risk-preventive parent-child policy agenda has paved the way for an emotionally normative model of parenting support, emphasising parents’ mentalisation capabilities, attachment patterns and emotional self-regulation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, this article examines how frontline workers in Danish health visitor services have not only adopted this agenda but also actively reshaped and ex…
Overcoming mistrusted masculinity
This ethnographic study investigates cooperation between homes and schools in a Danish context from the perspective of ‘ethnic minority fathers’. I analyse how experiences of an ‘implicit’ mistrust can make ethnic minority fathers reluctant to cooperate with child institutions such as schools. It is argued that this mistrust is related to a hegemonic negative image of these fathers as oppressive, aggressive, and/or absent and careless. To concept…
Overcoming mistrusted masculinity
This ethnographic study investigates cooperation between homes and schools in a Danish context from the perspective of ‘ethnic minority fathers’. I analyse how experiences of an ‘implicit’ mistrust can make ethnic minority fathers reluctant to cooperate with child institutions such as schools. It is argued that this mistrust is related to a hegemonic negative image of these fathers as oppressive, aggressive, and/or absent and careless. To concept…
Muslim Fathers and Mistrusted Masculinity in Danish Schools
Muslim Fathers and Mistrusted Masculinity in Danish Schools
Cultivating parental virtuosi
This article analyses how universal parenting courses for first-time parents in Danish municipalities represent measures to cultivate parents’ skills in ‘how to parent’. The aim of such courses is to support all new parents in the transition to parenthood, to teach parents about early child development, and to guide parents in managing their emotions. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, we address how the courses end up addressing a…
Standing Firm Against the Stickiness of Care
This article examines how expectant and new Danish parents are positioned within gendered frameworks in universal-access parenting courses. We argue that these courses, despite claims of gender-neutrality, reproduce gender as an absent-present history. On the one hand, the discourse of shared parenting remains prominent, emphasizing the equal importance of both parents. On the other hand, unequal ideals of fatherhood vis-à-vis motherhood continue…
Manage your emotions! Encouraging parents to engage in introspective analysis and help seeking
In the Danish context, a more recent risk-preventive parent-child policy agenda has paved the way for an emotionally normative model of parenting support, emphasising parents’ mentalisation capabilities, attachment patterns and emotional self-regulation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, this article examines how frontline workers in Danish health visitor services have not only adopted this agenda but also actively reshaped and ex…
‘I am a strong man if I can deal with my feelings’
This article examines how contemporary Danish fathers navigate shifting emotional expectations of fatherhood. Drawing on ethnographically informed interviews, we explore how men engage therapeutic vocabularies to reinterpret inherited emotional legacies and craft new paternal identities. Three intensive cases illustrate how therapy becomes a resource for developing emotional reflexivity, reworking boundaries between traditional and emerging mascu…
Danish (3 works) · Family Support in Illness (2 works) · Framing (construction (2 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Masculinity (2 works) · Normative (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)