Globalized fatherhood
by Chavkin, Wendy Inhorn, Marcia C. Navarro, José-Alberto
Using an entirely new conceptual vocabulary through which to understand men's experiences and expectations at the dawn of the twenty-first century, this path-breaking volume focuses on fatherhood around the globe, including transformations in fathering, fatherhood, and family life. It includes new work by anthropologists, sociologists, and cultural geographers, working in settings from Peru to India to Vietnam. Each chapter suggests that men are responding to globalization as fathers in creativ…
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- Full title :Globalized fatherhood / edited by Marcia C. Inhorn, Wendy Chavkin, and José-Alberto Navarro.
Summary
Using an entirely new conceptual vocabulary through which to understand men's experiences and expectations at the dawn of the twenty-first century, this path-breaking volume focuses on fatherhood around the globe, including transformations in fathering, fatherhood, and family life. It includes new work by anthropologists, sociologists, and cultural geographers, working in settings from Peru to India to Vietnam. Each chapter suggests that men are responding to globalization as fathers in creative and unprecedented ways, not only in the West, but also in numerous global locations.
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- Publication Date:©2015
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Berghahn
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2015
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (x, 419 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781782384380, 1782384383, 9781782384373, 1782384375
- oclc:on1170670257
- LC Classification:HQ756
- Dewey Decimal:306.874/2
Table of Contents
Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction -- Globalized Fatherhood: Emergent Forms and Possibilities in the New Millennium; Part I -- Corporate Fatherhood; Chapter 1 -- The Corporate Father; Chapter 2 -- Hiding Fatherhood in Corporate Japan; Part II -- Transnational Fatherhood; Chapter 3 -- Transnational Fathers, Good Providers, and the Silences of Adoption; Chapter 4 -- Long-Distance Fathers, Left-Behind Fathers, and Returnee Fathers: Changing Fathering Practices in Indonesia and the Philippines; Part III -- Primary Care Fatherhood
Chapter 5 -- When the Pillar of the Home Is Shaking: Female Labor Migration and Stay-at-Home Fathers in VietnamChapter 6 -- On Fatherhood in a Conflict Zone: Gaza Fathers and the Children''s Cancer Treatments; Part IV -- Clinical Fatherhood; Chapter 7 -- Enhancing Fathering through Medical Research Participation in Mexico; Chapter 8 -- The High-Tech Homunculus: New Science, Old Constructs; Part V -- Infertile Fatherhood; Chapter 9 -- Assumed, Promised, Forbidden: Infertility, IVF, and Fatherhood in Turkey
Chapter 10 -- New Arab Fatherhood: Male Infertility, Assisted Reproduction, and Emergent MasculinitiesPart VI -- Gay/Surrogate Fatherhood; …
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