Reshaping Fatherhood : the Social Construction of Shared Parenting.
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Thousand Oaks :
SAGE Publications,
1998
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| Series: | Understanding families.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I
- Background: Entering the Meaning-Making Loop; Chapter 1
- Introduction; Chapter 2
- Academic Discourses: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Fatherhood; Part II
- Meaning-Making; Chapter 3
- Diversity of Styles in Sharing Parenting; Chapter 4
- A Diversity of Paths: What Influenced Men and Women to Move toward Sharing Parenting; Chapter 5
- Guiding Light: Foundations for Sharing Parenting; Chapter 6
- Tag-Team Parenting and the Mechanisms of Sharing Parenting; Chapter 7
- The Dance of Father Involvement: Men's and Women's Connected Experiences.
- Chapter 8
- Sharing Parenting and the Reciprocal Revisioning of Fatherhood and MotherhoodPart III
- Reflexive Commentary; Chapter 9
- Sharing Parenting: Possibilities to Inform Alternative Discourse; Chapter 10
- Revisiting Dominant Discourses and Final Reflections: Implications of Taking a Different View; Appendix A: Methodology; Appendix B: Research Informants: Biographical Snapshots; References; Index; About the Author.
