| Description |
xvi, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Plenum series in adult development and aging |
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Plenum series in adult development and aging.
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| Contents |
The abrading of the American father -- Rationales for entering into the U.S. fathering role: men's divulgences, women's perceptions -- Looking for a man-to-child bond: setting up the fieldwork -- Results of the fieldwork: the joys and tedium of promiscuous empiricism -- Those two filters once again: tabula rasa or biocultural paradigm? -- Father: perceptions until the 1970s -- Father the irrelevant becomes father the underachieving -- Fathers in the 1990s: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- U.S. fathering: in search of a benchmark -- Fathering in the breccia: on the banks of the Rubicon -- Electra and Lady MacBeth -- The U.S. father: a tragedy of the commons? -- The commons will not stay fallow -- Troglodyte or semiconductor: dad in the twenty-first century. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-250) and indexes. |
| Subject |
Fathers -- United States.
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Father and child -- United States.
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| ISBN |
0306453371 |
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