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- Title: Gay Men, Race Privilege and Surrogacy in India (Report)
- Author : Outskirts: feminisms along the edge
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 212 KB
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Introduction In her book Do Men Mother?, Andrea Doucet (2006) examines whether or not men living in western societies who take on a primary caregiving role actually become mothers. Her findings, in sum, suggest that whilst men who act as primary caregivers engage in many of the same behaviours and are potentially driven by similar feelings and investments as are women who undertake primary care of children, men do not become mothers. This is largely the case, Doucet suggests, because women who are primary caregivers engage in the role through a relationship to notions of the maternal, and the expectations this places upon women's bodies and identities. Men, in contrast, always already parent as men living in a patriarchal society, one in which gendered roles continue to be highly regulated and where inequities continue in regard to the recognition accorded to women's work in comparison to men's work. Importantly, Doucet does not suggest that men who act as primary caregivers should be denied recognition for the important carework they undertake. Rather, she suggests that their carework must be placed in a relationship to the ongoing fact that women continue to undertake the majority of carework.