Making Men into Fathers

Barbara Hobson is a Professor of Sociology and holds a chair in Sociology and Gender Studies at Stockholm University. She is a director of the Advanced Research School in Comparative Gender Studies, a program for international research exchange and advanced doctoral studies. Barbara Hobson is both the founding and current editor of Social Politics: International Studies of Gender, State, and Society, published by Oxford University Press and is the Vice President of the Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare, and Social Policy (RC 19 of the International Sociological Association'. Barbara Hobson has published numerous articles on gender and welfare states on the themes of gender and citizenship, including women's agency and welfare state formation, solo mothers, and women's economic dependency in the family. Her current research and publications address (1) gender and economic citizenship within the framework of the European Union; and (2) social movements in trans-national policy arena. Her most recent book publications include an edited collection, Gender and Citizenship in Transition published by Macmillan Press and a coedited collection, Contested Concepts. Gender and Social Politics. The Fatherhood project, from which Making Men into Fathers emerged, was one of several international projects from an extensive research program grant, which was awarded to Barbara Hobson from the Centennial Fund of the Bank of Sweden. Another book from the project will be published in 2002: Recognition Struggles: Gender, Class, and Race/Ethnic Identities and the Frames of Citizenship.