Explores the surprising diversity of fathers and fatherhood
throughout American history and society The nuclear family has been
endlessly praised as the bedrock of American society, even though
there has rarely been a time in history when a majority of
Americans lived in such families. This book deconstructs the myth
of the nuclear family by presenting the rich diversity of family
lives in American history from the American Revolution to the
twenty-first century. To tell this story, Jurgen Martschukat
focuses on fathers and their relations to families and American
society. Using biographical close-ups of twelve different
characters, each embedded in historical context, American
Fatherhood provides a much more realistic picture of how fatherhood
has been performed within different kinds of families. Each
protagonist covers a crucial period or event in American history,
presents a different family constellation, and makes a different
argument with regard to how American society is governed through
the family.
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