Dyson, Simon, BERGHS, Maria orcid.org/0000-0002-6512-7921 and Atkin, Karl Michael orcid.org/0000-0003-1070-8670 (2015) ‘Talk to Me. There’s Two of Us’:Fathers and Sickle Cell Screening. Sociology. pp. 178-194. ISSN 1469-8684
Abstract
Studying kinship has involved doing family, displaying family and ‘displaying family’ as a sensitising concept to understand modalities troublesome to display. Fathers at antenatal screening clinics for sickle cell are faced with pressures to produce multiple displays – of family, illness knowledge, the good father and the model citizen – often in the face of racialised identities. Such fathers emphasise the importance of hypervisibility in gendered spaces and hypervigilence, lest pressures to adopt the ‘right’ disposition have adverse consequences for themselves, partners or their children. The displays of fathers, as well as displays they decline, are orientated to repair of social relationships. Where displays are provoked by social relations – resisting racist or gender stereotypes, navigating citizenship uncertainties, negotiating work and family lives – displays become problematic. Family display becomes troubled where the preferred social relationships fathers seek to constitute are ones that are not readily accommodated within extant social relations.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) The Authors, 2015. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Sociology . Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy |
Keywords: | Racism,GENETICS,fatherhood,Genetic Testing,Sickle Cell ,Screening,social relations |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Health Sciences (York) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number NIHR-CCF PB-PG-0610-22196 |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 12 Oct 2015 13:14 |
Last Modified: | 08 Feb 2025 00:17 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038514560261 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0038038514560261 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:83788 |
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