Househusbands

http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/historia/nam2007/Abstracts/Wahlstrom.pdf

This text is summarising a book called househusband, which looks at how the idea of the househusband rather than the housewife has affected the masculinity of many Americans. The article talks about how American manhood was typically associated with an escape from the family and home, whereas now with the trend of the househusband this has changed. The idea of the househusband goes against most, if not all stereotypical forms of masculinity, for example the man is now the one who stays at home, looks after the children and the house, whilst the woman is the one who goes out to work and makes the money. This could be seen as feminising the males of America, however the article states that the book claims that a man can do housework and yet still be masculine.

Many people would feel that men who stay at home and look after the children and do housework are not as masculine as those who go out to work, especially not as masculine as those who work as say builders. However this text argues that these househusbands can be considered to be just as manly and masculine as those men who do not stay at home all day whilst their wives go out to work instead of them.