In Fathering through Sport and Leisure, an underrepresented and highly topical area of social study is examined. This is a book about fathers, and how we can understand fathers and their fathering practices better if we examine the role of sport and leisure in their relationship…
This study examines an underrepresented and highly topical area of social study. It tells us how we can understand fathers and fathering practices better if we examine the role of sport and leisure in their relationships with their children and their partners.
Een bundel artikelen over vaderschap. Factoren die het moderne vaderschap beïnvloeden, zoals veranderende huwelijks- en echtscheidingspatronen, veranderingen op de werkplek, de groei van de vrouwenbeweging en de ontwikkeling van de mannenbeweging. Theoretisch en empirisch onderz…
This title provides theoretical analysis and empirical research from a number of social sciences on what it means to be a father in times of changing families and gender roles at work and in society at large. The topics of the 13 essays include finding models, life-course patter…
In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the deepest bond humans can have. Covering thinkers from Aristotle and Lévy- Bruhl to Émi…
"In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the deepest bond humans can have. Covering thinkers from Aristotle and Lévy- Bruhl to Ém…
Describes the concepts that are most prominent in our understanding of the modern male condition: fatherhood, aggressive, and heterosexual love ; it attempts to solve the mystery of what it means to be male.
Describes the concepts that are most prominent in our understanding of the modern male condition: fatherhood, aggressive, and heterosexual love ; it attempts to solve the mystery of what it means to be male.
"A pioneering study of Victorian and Edwardian fatherhood, investigating what being, and having, a father meant to working-class people. Based on working-class autobiography, the book challenges dominant assumptions about absent or 'feckless' fathers, and reintegrates the patern…
Raised right -- Something to believe in : modern American conservatism & the paternal rights discourse -- Penetrating the inner sanctum : William F. Buckley, Jr., paternal desire, and the rights of man -- "The greatest nation on earth" : Ronald Reagan, fathers, and the rights of…
"How has the modern conservative movement thrived in spite of the lack of harmony among its constituent members? What, and who, holds together its large corporate interests, small-government libertarians, social and racial traditionalists, and evangelical Christians? Raised Righ…