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Exploring the depths of gender, parenting and ‘work’: critical discursive psychology and the ‘missing voices’ of involved fatherhood

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Pages 4-18 | Received 08 Feb 2016, Accepted 29 Sep 2016, Published online: 06 Nov 2016

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