Carole Ammann


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Carole

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  • Queer fathers and parents' caring path to parenthood in the Netherlands and Switzerland
    Item type: Book Chapter
    Ammann, Carole (2025)
    Caring Fathers in the Global Context
    Research on caring fathering tends to implicitly refer to the parenting practices of heterosexual, cisgender men. Less empirical attention has been paid to gay, bisexual, trans and queer fathers and nonbinary parents. Their parenting experiences and practices are too often absent from research on fatherhood and parenthood. In this chapter, I focus on the narratives of queer fathers and parents in the Netherlands and Switzerland who became parents either within a co-parenting arrangement or through surrogacy. I analyse these individuals’ caring ways of ‘doing family’ before the conception of their children, within structures and normative frameworks geared towards cis-heterosexual, two-parent families.
  • Unpacking categorizations in researching GBTIQ+ parents
    Item type: Journal Article
    Ammann, Carole (2024)
    Sexualities
    In this article, based on anthropological research conducted in the Netherlands and Switzerland, I show the diversity and multi-faceted nature of GBTIQ+ (gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, and queer) parenting. In contrast to recent research on GBTIQ+ parents, which often distinguishes between parents who have children through a (former) heterosexual encounter, adoption, fostering, surrogacy, co-parenting, or trans pregnancy, I deliberately chose not to study just one form of family formation. Drawing on 37 biographical, narrative, and thematic interviews and two group discussions with GBTIQ+ parents, I adopt a processual understanding of parenting that takes into account its fluidity and transformations over the life course. I argue that we should pay attention to how both the unique ways of forming and being a GBTIQ+ family, and common notions of imagining and doing family, intermingle in practice. Furthermore, I stress the importance of taking into account the intersecting differences within the category of GBTIQ+ parents, and accordingly, we should critically analyze which factors are relevant to an individual in a particular time and space.
  • 'I am a father': Masculinities and paternal narratives in South Africa and Guinea
    Item type: Book Chapter
    Ammann, Carole; Musariri, Linda (2024)
    The Palgrave Handbook of African Men and Masculinities
    Drawing from two case studies from South Africa and Guinea, in this chapter we analyse the importance of fatherhood for the notion of masculinities. Using narratives of two (temporally) migrant men, we first explore how the ideas of masculinities and kinship impact specific enactments of fatherhood. We specifically analyse paternal (dis)connections by looking at how father-child relationships are understood, experienced, negotiated, and embodied in the everyday. In South Africa, which accounts for the highest proportion of fatherhood scholarship on the continent, fatherhood is often framed as problematic because fathers are depicted as absent and irresponsible. As a response, NGOs-alongside the prominent development discourse-promote caring forms of fatherhood. Guinea has a dearth of scholarship on men and masculinities in general and on fatherhood in particular.
  • The Precarity of Masculinity: Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon
    Item type: Book Review
    Ammann, Carole (2023)
    Gender, Place & Culture
  • ‘As a father, I like to develop and grow’ – fathering and privileges among white, heterosexual & highly educated men in the Netherlands
    Item type: Journal Article
    Ammann, Carole; Vermuë, Paula (2024)
    Norma: International Journal for Masculinity Studies
    In this paper, we analyse the understanding of ‘good’ fathering amongst white, heterosexual, and highly educated men living in the Netherlands with whom we conducted interviews. Their narratives showed that they consider ‘good’ fathering as a constant learning process, in which they put much emphasis on individualism, spending quality time with their children, and jointly discovering the world. To shed light on the structural factors that enable them to make active choices regarding fathering, we use the lens of privilege. While these fathers are privileged in relation to their gender, sexuality, class, education, ability, language, and ethnicity, the aspects of education, class, sexuality, and ethnicity emerged most prominently in the analysis of our data. Earlier research argued that privileges are often invisible to those who benefit from them. However, our data suggests, in line with recent research, that the privileged are sometimes aware of the benefits they profit from. Moreover, we add to the growing body of literature on privileged fathering in Europe by arguing that these fathers’ privileges are not primarily detectable in the advantages they profit from, but rather in the absence of barriers and obstacles they face.
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