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Father Figure - How to Be a Feminist Dad (Hardcover)
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Father Figure - How to Be a Feminist Dad (Hardcover)
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From Sesame Workshop senior fellow and digital-age parenting expert
Jordan Shapiro, a thoughtful and long-overdue exploration on
fatherhood and masculinity in the 21st century. There are hundreds
of books on parenting, and with good reason -- becoming a parent is
scary, difficult, and life-changing. But when it comes to books
about parenting identity, rather than the nuts and bolts of raising
children, nearly all are about what it's like to be a mother. If
you're looking for information about what it means to be a father,
you'll find the bookstore shelves surprisingly bare. Drawing on
research in sociology, economics, psychology, cultural history, and
the author's own experiences, FATHER-FIGURE sets out to fill that
gap. It's an exploration of the psychology of fatherhood from an
archetypal perspective (Think: Women Who Run With The Wolves for
fathers) as well a cultural history of fatherhood that explains how
we got to where we are. What are the paradoxes inherent in our
current understanding of dads? Might it be time to rethink some of
the current aspects of fatherhood? Gender norms are changing, and
old economic models are facing disruption. As a result, parenthood
and family life are undergoing an existential transformation. And
yet, the narratives and images of dads available to us are wholly
inadequate for this transition. Victorian and Industrial Age tropes
about fathers not only dominate the media, but also contour most
people's lived experience. FATHER-FIGURE offers a badly-needed
update to our collective understanding of fatherhood -- and
masculinity in general -- that highlights what's essential about
fatherhood while guiding us to an image of manliness reimagined for
the modern world.
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