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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480788503321

Autore

Dienhart Anna

Titolo

Reshaping fatherhood [[electronic resource] ] : the social construction of shared parenting / / Anna Dienhart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif., : SAGE, c1998

ISBN

1-322-41923-X

1-4833-4548-3

1-4522-5061-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

Understanding families ; ; v. 11

Disciplina

306.874

306.874/2

306.8742

Soggetti

Fatherhood

Parenting

Sex role

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.