Deconstructing the Paterfamilias
British Magazines and the Imagining of the Maternal Father, 1850–1910
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12412940 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claudia Nelson (0000-0003-2953-499X, Southwest Texas State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 293-308 |
| Publication date | 2003-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Men s Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-8265 • E-ISSN: 1933-0251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3149/jms.1103.293 |
| OpenAlex | W2081462659 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
While British periodicals between 1850 and 1910 typically expressed anxiety about fatherhood in the abstract, often portraying fathers as cold, detached, sexually irresponsible, or brutal, periodical fiction and “life writing” took a different tack by presenting their readership with portraits of ideal individual fathers. This article explores the ways in which this ideal inverts the usual stereotype of the Victorian paterfamilias by investing the father with the selflessness, sexual purity, and commitment to domesticity that were also crucial to the ideal of the good Victorian mother
Art · Art history · Audience measurement · Ideal (ethics · Political science · Portrait · Sociology · Stereotype (UML · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2020 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |