Reshaping Fatherhood: The Social Construction of Shared ParentingSAGE Publications, 1998 M05 27 - 245 pages 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. |
Contents
Dominant Discourses and Beyond | 6 |
Effect on Men of Becoming and Being a Father | 31 |
MeaningMaking | 37 |
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Reshaping Fatherhood: The Social Construction of Shared Parenting Anna Dienhart Limited preview - 1998 |
Reshaping Fatherhood: The Social Construction of Shared Parenting Anna Dienhart No preview available - 1998 |
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