Reshaping fatherhood : the social construction of shared parenting /

Dienhart, Anna.

Reshaping fatherhood : the social construction of shared parenting / Anna Dienhart. - 1 online resource (262 pages). - Understanding families ; volume 11 . - Understanding families ; v. 11. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Academic discourses : interdisciplinary perspectives on fatherhood -- Diversity of styles in sharing parenting -- A diversity of paths : what influenced men and women to move toward sharing parenting -- Guiding light : foundations for sharing parenting -- Tag-team parenting and the mechanisms of sharing parenting -- The dance of father involvement : men's and women's connected experiences -- Sharing parenting and the reciprocal revisioning of fatherhood and motherhood -- Sharing parenting : possibilities to inform alternative discourse -- Revisiting dominant discourses and final reflections : implications of taking a different view.

9781452250618 (e-book)


Fatherhood.
Parenting.
Sex role.


Electronic books.

HQ756 / .D52 1998

306.874/2