"You're a failure as a parent, Joe Edwards!": Reconfiguring the Male Parent in Australian Realist Fictions for Children 1966-1986

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  • Beverley Pennell

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https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl1999vol9no1art1364

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hegemonic masculinity, patriarchy, male parent, fathers, parents, gender role, social norms, change, values, family

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1999-01-01

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“‘You’re a failure as a parent, Joe Edwards!’: Reconfiguring the Male Parent in Australian Realist Fictions for Children 1966-1986” (1999) Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, 9(1), pp. 31–40. doi:10.21153/pecl1999vol9no1art1364.

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