ABSTRACT
The concept of ideological dilemmas was first developed by Billig et al. (1988) as a way of capturing the fragmentary and contradictory nature of everyday common sense. In this view, lived ideologies are inherently dilemmatic, or structured around contradictions. Everyday discourse tends to revolve around sets of oppositions that have to be worked through and resolved. The ways in which the participants in this study discussed their experience as fathers reflected at least two shared ideological dilemmas.
