Essential Dads - The Inequalities and Politics of Fathering

"Essential Dads is an important intervention into the parenting literature, bringing a powerful voice to underrepresented fathers in an important social and policy arena, and adding their perspectives—expertly analyzed and contextualized—to an ongoing national dialogue on what it means to be a father."—Philip N. Cohen, author of Enduring Bonds: Inequality, Marriage, Parenting, and Everything Else That Makes Families Great and Terrible

"Jennifer M. Randles’s book is an incredibly important study that helps us to better understand the vast array of competing social structures, forces, ideologies, and discourses that shape the kind and quality of access marginalized fathers have to being seen and seeing themselves as 'good dads.'"—Tristan Bridges, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
 

List of contents

1. Knowing What a Father Is 
2. Being There Beyond Breadwinning
3. Resources for Responsibility
4. Making a Case to Mothers
5. New Fathers and Old Ideas
6. Teaching the Essential Father
7. Having It Better

Acknowledgments
Appendix: Pregnancy and Parenthood in the Field
Notes
References
Index

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Jennifer M. Randles, Dr. Jennifer Marlene Randles, Jennifer M. Randles, Jennifer Marlene Randles
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9780520335233
• ISBN: 978-0-520-33523-3
• No. of pages: 278
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men