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Author | : Aasha M. Abdill |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2018-06-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0231542275 |
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Despite a decade of sociological research documenting black fathers’ significant level of engagement with their children, stereotypes of black men as “deadbeat dads” still shape popular perceptions and scholarly discourse. In Fathering from the Margins, sociologist Aasha M. Abdill draws on four years of fieldwork in low-income, predominantly black Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, to dispel these destructive assumptions. She considers the obstacles faced—and the strategies used—by black men with children. Abdill presents qualitative and quantitative evidence that confirms the increasing presence of black fathers in their communities, arguing that changing social norms about gender roles in black families have shifted fathering behaviors. Black men in communities such as Bed-Stuy still face social and structural disadvantages, including disproportionate unemployment and incarceration, with significant implications for family life. Against this backdrop, black fathers attempt to reconcile contradictory beliefs about what makes one a good father and what makes one a respected man by developing different strategies for expressing affection and providing parental support. Black men’s involvement with their children is affected by the attitudes of their peers, the media, and especially the women of their families and communities: from the grandmothers who often become gatekeepers to involvement in a child’s life to the female-dominated sectors of childcare, primary school, and family-service provision. Abdill shows how supporting black men in their quest to be—and be seen as—family men is the key to securing not only their children's well-being but also their own.
Author | : Timothy Black |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2020-11-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 019006224X |
Download It's a Setup Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The expectation for fathers to be more involved with parenting their children and pitching in at home are higher than ever, yet broad social, political, and economic changes have made it more difficult for low-income men to be fathers. In It's a Setup, Timothy Black and Sky Keyes ground a moving and intimate narrative in the political and economic circumstances that shape the lives of low-income fathers. Based on 138 life history interviews, they expose the contradiction that while the norms and expectations of father involvement have changed rapidly within a generation, labor force and state support for fathering on the margins has deteriorated. Tracking these life histories, they move us through the lived experiences of job precarity, welfare cuts, punitive child support courts, public housing neglect, and the criminalization of poverty to demonstrate that without transformative systemic change, individual determination is not enough. Fathers on the social and economic margins are setup to fail.
Author | : Marc Grau Grau |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Culture |
ISBN | : 3030756459 |
Download Engaged Fatherhood for Men, Families and Gender Equality Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This aim of this open access book is to launch an international, cross-disciplinary conversation on fatherhood engagement. By integrating perspective from three sectors -- Health, Social Policy, and Work in Organizations -- the book offers a novel perspective on the benefits of engaged fatherhood for men, for families, and for gender equality. The chapters are crafted to engaged broad audiences, including policy makers and organizational leaders, healthcare practitioners and fellow scholars, as well as families and their loved ones.
Author | : Anna Tarrant |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2021-08-05 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1447345517 |
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Anna Tarrant’s revealing research explores the dynamics and diversity of men’s caring roles in low-income households at various stages of their lives. It sheds light on men’s participation in care and the factors that affect it, including class, culture, work and the impact of austerity.
Author | : Roberta L. Coles |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0231143532 |
Download The Myth of the Missing Black Father Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Common stereotypes portray black fathers as being largely absent from their families. Yet while black fathers are less likely than white and Hispanic fathers to marry their child's mother, many continue to parent through cohabitation and visitation, providing caretaking, financial, and other in-kind support. This volume captures the meaning and practice of black fatherhood in its many manifestations, exploring two-parent families, cohabitation, single custodial fathering, stepfathering, noncustodial visitation, and parenting by extended family members and friends. Contributors examine ways that black men perceive and decipher their parenting responsibilities, paying careful attention to psychosocial, economic, and political factors that affect the ability to parent. Chapters compare the diversity of African American fatherhood with negative portrayals in politics, academia, and literature and, through qualitative analysis and original profiles, illustrate the struggle and intent of many black fathers to be responsible caregivers. This collection also includes interviews with daughters of absent fathers and concludes with the effects of certain policy decisions on responsible parenting.
Author | : David W. Shwalb |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1848729472 |
Download Fathers in Cultural Context Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
First Published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Jennifer M. Randles |
Publisher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2020-10-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520335236 |
Download Essential Dads Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Essential Dads, sociologist Jennifer Randles shares the stories of more than 60 marginalized men as they sought to become more engaged parents through a government-supported “responsible” fatherhood program. Dads’ experiences serve as a unique window into long-standing controversies about the importance of fathering, its connection to inequality, and the state’s role in shaping men’s parenting. With a compassionate and hopeful voice, Randles proposes a more equitable political agenda for fatherhood, one that carefully considers the social and economic factors shaping men’s abilities to be involved in their children’s lives and the ideologies that rationalize the necessity of that involvement.
Author | : Anna Tarrant |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2021-08-05 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1447348664 |
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This book offers a critique of the popular claim that more data equals better health. In a study that redefines the public, academic, and policy debates around health, bodies, information and data, the authors consider the ways in which the phenomenon of self-diagnosis has created alternative worlds of knowledge and practices which are often at odds with professional medical advice. With a focus on data that concerns significant life changes, this book explores the potential challenges related to people's changing relationships with traditional health systems as access to, and control over, data continues to evolve.
Author | : Vern L. Bengtson |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 689 |
Release | : 2004-11-09 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1452210942 |
Download Sourcebook of Family Theory and Research Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Sponsored by the National Council on Family Relations, the Sourcebook of Family Theory and Research is the reference work on theory and methods for family scholars and students around the world. This volume provides a diverse, eclectic, and paradoxically mature approach to theorizing and demonstrates how the development of theory is crucial to the future of family research. The Sourcebook reflects an interactive approach that focuses on the process of theory building and designing research, thereby engaging readers in "doing" theory rather than simply reading about it. An accompanying Web site, http://www.ncfr.org/sourcebook, offers additional participation and interaction in the process of doing theory and making science.
Author | : Jan Doolittle Wilson |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2021-06-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1793643709 |
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Using an autoethnographic approach, as well as multiple first-person accounts from disabled writers, artists, and scholars, Jan Doolittle Wilson describes how becoming disabled is to forge a new consciousness and a radically new way of viewing the world. In Becoming Disabled, Wilson examines disability in ways that challenge dominant discourses and systems that shape and reproduce disability stigma and discrimination. It is to create alternative meanings that understand disability as a valuable human variation, that embrace human interdependency, and that recognize the necessity of social supports for individual flourishing and happiness. From her own disability view of the world, Wilson critiques the disabling impact of language, media, medical practices, educational systems, neoliberalism, mothering ideals, and other systemic barriers. And she offers a powerful vision of a society in which all forms of human diversity are included and celebrated and one in which we are better able to care for ourselves and each other.