Globalized Fatherhood

Published by Berghahn Books 2014

Globalized Fatherhood

Edited by: Marcia C. Inhorn , Wendy Chavkin and José-Alberto Navarro

Volume 27 in the series Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782384380

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About this book

Using an entirely new conceptual vocabulary through which to understand men’s experiences and expectations at the dawn of the twenty-first century, this path-breaking volume focuses on fatherhood around the globe, including transformations in fathering, fatherhood, and family life. It includes new work by anthropologists, sociologists, and cultural geographers, working in settings from Peru to India to Vietnam. Each chapter suggests that men are responding to globalization as fathers in creative and unprecedented ways, not only in the West, but also in numerous global locations.

Author / Editor information

Marcia C. Inhorn is the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University. She is (co)editor and author of numerous books on the subject of gender and masculinity, including The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East (Princeton University Press, 2012). Inhorn is also the founding editor of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies and co-editor of Berghahn’s “Fertility, Reproduction, and Sexuality” series.

Wendy Chavkin is Professor of Public Health and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York City. Her most recent book is The Globalization of Motherhood: Deconstructions and Reconstructions of Biology and Care (Routledge, 2010). She is the co-founder of Global Doctors for Choice, an international network of physicians who advocate for reproductive health and rights.

José-Alberto Navarro is an MSc student at HEC Paris. His most recent work examines processes of fragmentation, objectification, and masculine body commodification within invisible and illicit economies created through social-networking applications. Navarro’s research focuses on exploring the intersections of economics, finance, gender, and anthropology.

Marcia C. Inhorn is the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University. She is (co)editor and author of numerous books on the subject of gender and masculinity, including The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East (Princeton University Press, 2012). Inhorn is also the founding editor of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies and co-editor of Berghahn’s “Fertility, Reproduction, and Sexuality” series.

Reviews

“To understand and explain how fatherhood is conceptualized, defined, and practiced in other regions, many of the contributors introduce new vocabularies and novel theories over the course of the 16 chapters across eight distinct parts of this volume… The result is a timely contribution that illustrates vividly how fatherhood is socially and culturally constructed, altered, contested, and, ultimately, enacted and practiced.” · Choice

“The work is a welcome contribution to the study of men and reproduction, with special attention to changing identities and roles in an increasingly globalized world. It serves as a call for more research towards and stronger conceptual frameworks for understanding fatherhood.” · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

“This intriguing [and comprehensive] collection of essays on the way men from different geographical settings and cultural contexts engage in fatherhood is intended to fill a gap in social science literature, where women have overwhelmingly been the focus of attention…[It] will be appreciated not only by kinship, gender and family studies scholars but also by anyone interested in contemporary ethnographic anthropology.” · Anthropological Notebooks

“Thanks to Globalized Fatherhood we now have a benchmark set of studies with which to further build the theory necessary to study men in relation to children and mothers, as well as a splendid collection of essays each of which reveals common, unique, and often surprising ways of being fathers today, that is fatherhood in all its contradictory and mutable variations.” · Global Public Health

“Globalized Fatherhood, with its 16 chapters and original research on fatherhood (and related topics) from more than 20 countries comes at an opportune time. This impressive volume,… covers a lot of ground…[It] is an ambitious offering that hits the mark in most of its chapters, and advances the research in a field that is sadly lacking in it. May there be more volumes on the topic –by these authors, and many others.” · Gender & Development

“The book provides manifold empirical and ethnographic insights into the ways in which men around the globe think of and enact fatherhood and into how different historical, national, global, societal and cultural conditions shape men’s possibilities of becoming and being fathers. The book convincingly shows that fatherhood is closely related to family life, kinship concerns, marriage, parenthood, partnership, gender identity, sexuality and class.” · Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, University of Southern Denmark

“The editors have done an excellent job of uniting an exciting collection of international contributions which collectively illuminate the concept of globalized fatherhood. The proposed ‘new vocabulary’ for discussing transformations in fatherhood and masculinity will be of interest to those working on men, gender, infertility, parenting and health in a wide range of disciplines.” · Nicky Hudson, De Montfort University

“A strikingly rich analysis of how fatherhood is culturally constructed and enacted across the world. It not only tells us about the intimate sphere of men’s lives as fathers and how they interact with their children, partners, hoped for and lost children, but also how studying fatherhood offers a fascinating window on broader social change across different societies.” · Maria Lohan, Queen’s University Belfast

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
TABLES AND FIGURES Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction GLOBALIZED FATHERHOOD: EMERGENT FORMS AND POSSIBILITIES IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM Marcia C. Inhorn, Wendy Chavkin and José-Alberto Navarro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I CORPORATE FATHERHOOD
Chapter 1 THE CORPORATE FATHER Jude Browne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Chapter 2 HIDING FATHERHOOD IN CORPORATE JAPAN Scott North Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Part II TRANSNATIONAL FATHERHOOD
Chapter 3 TRANSNATIONAL FATHERS, GOOD PROVIDERS, AND THE SILENCES OF ADOPTION Jessaca Leinaweaver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Chapter 4 LONG-DISTANCE FATHERS, LEFT-BEHIND FATHERS, AND RETURNEE FATHERS: CHANGING FATHERING PRACTICES IN INDONESIA AND THE PHILIPPINES Theodora Lam and Brenda S. A. Yeoh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Part III PRIMARY CARE FATHERHOOD
Chapter 5 WHEN THE PILLAR OF THE HOME IS SHAKING: FEMALE LABOR MIGRATION AND STAY-AT-HOME FATHERS IN VIETNAM Vu Thi Thao Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Chapter 6 ON FATHERHOOD IN A CONFLICT ZONE: GAZA FATHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN’S CANCER TREATMENTS Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, Yana Diamand and Maram Abu Yaman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
Part IV CLINICAL FATHERHOOD
Chapter 7 ENHANCING FATHERING THROUGH MEDICAL RESEARCH PARTICIPATION IN MEXICO Emily Wentzell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Chapter 8 THE HIGH-TECH HOMUNCULUS: NEW SCIENCE, OLD CONSTRUCTS Linda G. Kahn and Wendy Chavkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Part V INFERTILE FATHERHOOD
Chapter 9 ASSUMED, PROMISED, FORBIDDEN: INFERTILITY, IVF, AND FATHERHOOD IN TURKEY Zeynep B. Gürtin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Chapter 10 NEW ARAB FATHERHOOD: MALE INFERTILITY, ASSISTED REPRODUCTION, AND EMERGENT MASCULINITIES Marcia C. Inhorn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Part VI GAY/SURROGATE FATHERHOOD
Chapter 11 RELATING ACROSS INTERNATIONAL BORDERS: GAY MEN FORMING FAMILIES THROUGH OVERSEAS SURROGACY Deborah Dempsey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Chapter 12 CONCEIVING FATHERHOOD: GAY MEN AND INDIAN SURROGATE MOTHERS Sharmila Rudrappa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Part VII AMBIVALENT FATHERHOOD
Chapter 13 FATHERHOOD, COMPANIONATE MARRIAGE, AND THE CONTRADICTIONS OF MASCULINITY IN NIGERIA Daniel Jordan Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Chapter 14 THE FOUR FACES OF IRANIAN FATHERHOOD Soraya Tremayne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	336
Part VIII IMPERILED FATHERHOOD
Chapter 15 “BARE STICKS” AND OTHER DANGERS TO THE SOCIAL BODY: ASSEMBLING FATHERHOOD IN CHINA Susan Greenhalgh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
Chapter 16 PATERNITY POISONED: THE IMPACT OF GULF WAR SYNDROME ON FATHERHOOD Susie Kilshaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	382
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	404
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 430
Keywords: Medical Anthropology; Gender Studies and Sexuality

eBook

Published: October 1, 2014
ISBN: 9781782384380