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Paper short abstract

The communication explores the new forms of identity that are built around masculinity in relation to new models of paternity and paternal involvement in care. We focus especially on changes, tensions and contradictions of involved fathers in their adaptation to fatherhood.

Paper long abstract

This communication explores the discourses and narratives of urban middle-class men facing fatherhood for the first time. The data come from a study carried out in Barcelona on fathers who attended a course of seven sessions on preparation for birth between 2015 and 2017. Five discussion groups were held with these men who had attended the course and were already fathers. These men, who define themselves as involved fathers, discussed, among other topics, the meaning of being a father, paternal involvement, changes, tensions and contradictions, between ideals and reality, in their adaptation to paternity.

The communication explores the new forms of identity that are built around masculinity in relation to new models of paternity and paternal involvement in care.