Lost fathers : the politics of fatherlessness in America
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Lost fathers : the politics of fatherlessness in America
Macmillan, 1998
- : hard
- : pbk
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The concept of fatherlessness has emerged at the centre of debates over welfare, poverty, sexuality, divorce, family values and "racial disorder". Do children need fathers? Do mothers need husbands? Should we celebrate or grieve the loss (or transformation) of fatherhood? Is there a relation between "fatherlessness" and the destitution and crime of inner city communities? Or is talk about "fatherlessness" simply a political diversion from the true sources of inequality and social disruption? This collection brings together the voices of nine diverse scholars to reflect on the culturally and politically charged concept of "fatherlessness" and to illustrate the deep and dramatic divisions which constitute public debate on this issue. The book offers a range of perspectives, from conservative to radical feminist, on the issue of father absence.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements Introduction
- C.R.Daniels The History and Politics of Fatherlessness
- R.L.Griswold Life without Father
- D. Popenoe Dada-ism in the Nineties: Getting Past Baby Talk About Fatherlessness
- J. Stacey Growing Up Without a Father
- S. McLanahan 'This River Runs Deep': Father Myths and Single Mothers in Poor America
- L. Dodson The Lost Children
- J.B.Elshtain The Absent Black Father
- D.Roberts Father Hunger
- M.Gallagher Fatherhood and Its Discontents: Men, Patriarchy, and Freedom
- D.Cornell
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