Multiple Masculinities: Perspectives from Latin American Migrant Women and Their Daughters in the UK

This chapter incorporates a truly ‘gendered’ perspective on masculinities and fathering practicesFatherhoodfathering practices by drawing on the insights from a distinct cohort of migrant women and their daughtersDaughters to explore their perceptions of masculinities reflected in their parents’ marriagesMarriages; experiences of being fathered, the different kinds of relationshipsRelationships and affective ties experienced growing up/working in Latin America and their perceptions of how masculinities and fathering practices are reconstructed in the UK. It also examines their daughters’ perspectives on masculinities reflected in their parents’ marriages; differences in what they felt able to share with their mothers and fathers; and experiences of multiple masculinities including fathers, stepfathersStep Relationsstepfathers and partners and shifts in the construction and enactment of masculinities in the UK.