Reshaping Fatherhood
The Social Construction of Shared Parenting
Paperback
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ISBN-13:
9780761909781
Veröffentl:
1998
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
27.05.1998
Seiten:
262
Autor:
Anna Dienhart
Gewicht:
385 g
Format:
229x152x14 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This qualitative study of 18 shared parenting couples explores men's and women's resourcefulness as they create together alternatives to traditional parenting patterns. Narrative accounts show a diversity of possible ways to organize family life so both mothers and fathers can be active in parenting. The many strategies followed by these couples - including tag-team parenting, interchangeability of roles, and division of labor - share a flexibility which challenges the many researchers who are fixated on static models of gendered family life.
Discourses on fatherhood often focus on minimal changes in men's participation in family-life and in so doing mask significant changes some men have made. In contrast, Dienhart's qualitative study of 18 shared parenting couples explores men's and women's resourcefulness as they deliberately co-create alternatives to traditional parenting patterns.
PART ONE: BACKGROUNDIntroductionAcademic Discourses Interdisciplinary Perspectives on FatherhoodPART TWO: MEANING-MAKINGDiversity of Styles in Sharing Parenting Diversity of Paths What Influenced Men and Women To Move toward Shared ParentingGuiding Light Foundations for Sharing ParentingTag-Team Parenting and the Mechanisms of Sharing ParentingThe Dance of Father Involvement Men¿s and Women¿s Connected ExperiencesSharing Parenting and the Reciprocal Revisioning of Both Fatherhood and MotherhoodPART THREE: RELEXIVE COMMENTARYReshaping Parenthood Possibilities to Inform Alternative DiscourseRevisioning Dominant Discourses and Final Reflections Implications of Taking a Different View