Men, Families, and Poverty

Kahryn Hughes is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK. She is also Director of the Timescapes Archive, Editor-in-Chief of Sociological Research Online, and Senior Fellow of the National Centre for Research Methods, UK. She is internationally recognised for innovation in methods of Qualitative Secondary Analysis. Her substantive interests include intergenerational poverty and addiction.Anna Tarrant is Professor of Sociology at the University of Lincoln, UK. She is also a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellow, leading a study called “Following Young Fathers Further.” Her work examines men’s family participation in low-income families. Her previous books include Fathering and Poverty (Policy Press, 2021).

• 1. Introduction: Tracing Men's Longitudinal Trajectories in Low-Income Families.- 2. Men in Poverty in Families: Absent or a Case of Smoke and Mirrors?.- 3. Qualitative Secondary Analysis: Methodological Strategies and Innovation.- 4. Women's Accounts of Men in Low-Income Family Contexts.- 5. Men as Fathers and Providers.- 6. Men in the System: 'Rescue and Repair' through Kinship Caring.- 7. The Limits of Family for Men in Poverty.- 8. Conclusion: Trajectories of Families through Poverty.