Description
Book SynopsisThe first edition of Do Men Mother? (2006) was awarded the John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award from the Canadian Sociological Association and remains one of the most widely cited books on primary caregiving fathers and stay-at-home fathers. This second edition of Do Men Mother? builds on interviews conducted between 2000 and 2004 with 101 fathers and 14 mother/father couples, and follow-up interviews with six of the mother/father couples about a decade later. It charts how fathers and mothers navigate and negotiate parental and breadwinning responsibilities and calls attention to the generative changes that occur for men when they share responsibilities for their children’s care. Working closely with Sara Ruddick’s Maternal Thinking (1989), Doucet advocates for a wider maternal lens that focuses on entanglements between dependence/independence/inter-dependence and argues that fathers’ stories expand how we think about mothering an
Table of Contents
Section I: Knowing and Crafting Fathers' Stories Chapter 1: Mapping and Remapping Fathering Fields Chapter 2: Knowing and Crafting Fathers' Stories Through Gossamer Walls Chapter 3: Understanding Fathers as Primary Caregivers Section II: Do Men Mother? Fathering, Care and Parental Responsibilities Chapter 4: Fathers and Emotional Responsibilities Chapter 5: Fathers and Community Responsibilities Chapter 6: Fathering, Mothering, and 'Moral' Responsibilities Section III: Changing Fathering: Care, Responsibilities, Embodiment Chapter 7: Men Reconstructing Fathering, Care, and Gender Postscript
