Author: Robin Sullivan
Publisher: Acer Press
Keywords: fathering, focus
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-11
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0864314655
ISBN-13: 9780864314659

An informative and challenging look at fathering and what it means to be a father in Australia today. This book explores many aspects of fathering including the role they play in a child’s life, stereotypes, issues and pressures they face.

Author: Andrea Doucet
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Keywords: domestic, responsibility, care, fathering, mother, men
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-11-04
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0802085466
ISBN-13: 9780802085467

More and more, fathers are deciding to stay at home and care for their children rather than work full-time outside of the home. More and more, Canadian families are lead by single fathers. Shining a spotlight on the lives of stay at home dads and single fathers, Do Men Mother? provides groundbreaking evidence of dramatic changes in mothering and fathering in Canada. Using evidence gathered in a four-year in-depth qualitative study, including interviews with over 100 fathers - from truck drivers to insurance salesmen, physicians to artists - Andrea Doucet illustrates how men are breaking the

Author: Rob Palkovitz
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: provisional, balances, development, adult, fathering, men, involved
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2002-05-01
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0805835652
ISBN-13: 9780805835656

Involved Fathering and Men’s Adult Development is an interdisciplinary book that synthesizes theoretical, empirical, and anecdotal writings from different fields and provides an analysis of extensive interviews with 40 fathers. Along with the exploration of the distinct contribution that fathers make to their children’s development, the author pursues the parallel theme of the effect this involvement has on the fathers’ own development in adulthood. This book will provide its readers with a realistic and useful beginning point to bring a synthesis of developmental theories,

Author: Russ Castronovo
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: slavery, freedom, genealogies, american, nation, fathering
Number of Pages: 287
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0520089014
ISBN-13: 9780520089013

Russ Castronovo underscores the inherent contradictions between America’s founding principles of freedom and the reality of slavery in a book that probes mid-nineteenth-century representations of the founding fathers. He finds that rather than being coherent and consensual, narratives of nationhood are inconsistent, ambivalent, and ironic. He examines competing expressions of national memory in a wide range of mid-nineteenth-century artifacts: slave autobiography, classic American fiction, monumental architecture, myths of the Revolution, proslavery writing, a

Authors:James Dudley PhD, Glenn Stone PhD, Mark H. Stone Psy
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Keywords: fathers, nonresidential, helping, risk, fathering
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2001-09-15
List price: $58.00
ISBN-10: 0826114180
ISBN-13: 9780826114181

Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte. Profiles three groups of nonresidential fathers: teens, older fathers, and unmarried or divorced fathers. Promotes a fuller understanding of their problems, and offers an array of strategies for involving them in their children’s lives. Includes resources for various fathering programs.