ISBN:
9780195119091
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (305 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Family Man : Fatherhood, Housework, and Gender Equity
DDC:
306.85
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The typical American family has changed dramatically since the days of ""Ozzie and Harriet"" and ""Father Knows Best."" Double-income families are now the rule, and fathers are much more involved in raising the children and cleaning house. Reactions to these changes have been diverse, ranging from grave misgivings to a sense of liberation and new possibility. Groups as diverse as Promise Keepers, the Million Man March, and Robert Bly's mythopoetic men's movement tell us that fathers are important. From the fundamentalist right to the feminist left, opinions about the changing nature of the fam
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; 1. Parenting in Transition; New Fatherhood Ideals; Reluctant Pioneers; Nostalgia for the Past and Dreams for the Future; Organization of the Book; 2. Separate Spheres; Separate Spheres and Gender Inequality; A Brief History of Separate Spheres; Increasing Diversity of Family Types; Family Work in the 1970s and 1980s; 3. Changing Patterns of Family Work; Who Does What?; Interviews with Shared Parenting Families; Emerging Issues and Patterns; 4. Providing and Caring; Research on Mexican-American Families
Description / Table of Contents:
Interviews with Two-Job FamiliesSharing and Reluctance; 5. Why Do Couples Share?; Personal Motivations; The Importance of Timing; Social Networks and Household Labor; 6. Explaining Family Work; Theories of Household Labor Allocation; The National Survey of Families and Households; What Do We Know?; 7. Gender, Culture, and Fatherhood; The Legacy of Margaret Mead; Gender Relations in Pre-Modern Societies; Wild Men and Father Hunger; The Dangers of Celebrating Difference; 8. The Future; Family Work; Social Trends; Predicting Future Sharing; Notes; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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