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Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review “To understand and explain how fatherhood is conceptualized, defined, and practiced in other regions, many of the contributors introduce new vocabularies and novel theories over the course of the 16 chapters across eight distinct parts of this volume… The result is a timely contribution that illustrates vividly how fatherhood is socially and culturally constructed, altered, contested, and, ultimately, enacted and practiced.” · Choice
“The work is a welcome contribution to the study of men and reproduction, with special attention to changing identities and roles in an increasingly globalized world. It serves as a call for more research towards and stronger conceptual frameworks for understanding fatherhood.” · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
“This intriguing [and comprehensive] collection of essays on the way men from different geographical settings and cultural contexts engage in fatherhood is intended to fill a gap in social science literature, where women have overwhelmingly been the focus of attention…[It] will be appreciated not only by kinship, gender and family studies scholars but also by anyone interested in contemporary ethnographic anthropology.” · Anthropological Notebooks
“Thanks to Globalized Fatherhood we now have a benchmark set of studies with which to further build the theory necessary to study men in relation to children and mothers, as well as a splendid collection of essays each of which reveals common, unique, and often surprising ways of being fathers today, that is fatherhood in all its contradictory and mutable variations.” · Global Public Health
“Globalized Fatherhood, with its 16 chapters and original research on fatherhood (and related topics) from more than 20 countries comes at an opportune time. This impressive volume,… covers a lot of ground…[It] is an ambitious offering that hits the mark in most of its chapters, and advances the research in a field that is sadly lacking in it. May there be more volumes on the topic –by these authors, and many others.” · Gender & Development
“The book provides manifold empirical and ethnographic insights into the ways in which men around the globe think of and enact fatherhood and into how different historical, national, global, societal and cultural conditions shape men’s possibilities of becoming and being fathers. The book convincingly shows that fatherhood is closely related to family life, kinship concerns, marriage, parenthood, partnership, gender identity, sexuality and class.” · Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, University of Southern Denmark
“The editors have done an excellent job of uniting an exciting collection of international contributions which collectively illuminate the concept of globalized fatherhood. The proposed ‘new vocabulary’ for discussing transformations in fatherhood and masculinity will be of interest to those working on men, gender, infertility, parenting and health in a wide range of disciplines.” · Nicky Hudson, De Montfort University
“A strikingly rich analysis of how fatherhood is culturally constructed and enacted across the world. It not only tells us about the intimate sphere of men’s lives as fathers and how they interact with their children, partners, hoped for and lost children, but also how studying fatherhood offers a fascinating window on broader social change across different societies.” · Maria Lohan, Queen’s University Belfast
Table of Contents List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Globalized Fatherhood: Emergent Forms and Possibilities in the New Millennium
Marcia C. Inhorn, Wendy Chavkin, and José-Alberto Navarro
PART I: CORPORATE FATHERHOOD
Chapter 1. The Corporate Father
Jude Browne
Chapter 2. Hiding Fatherhood in Corporate Japan
Scott North
PART II: TRANSNATIONAL FATHERHOOD
Chapter 3. Transnational Fathers, Good Providers, and the Silences of Adoption
Jessaca Leinaweaver
Chapter 4. Long-Distance Fathers, Left-Behind Fathers, and Returnee Fathers: Changing Fathering Practices in Indonesia and the Philippines
Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Theodora Lam
PART III: PRIMARY CARE FATHERHOOD
Chapter 5. When the Pillar of the Home is Shaking: Female Labor Migration and Stay-at-home Fathers in Vietnam
Vu Thi Thao
Chapter 6. On Fatherhood in a Conflict Zone: Gaza Fathers and their Children’s Cancer Treatments
Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, Yana Diamand, and Maram Abu Yaman
PART IV: CLINICAL FATHERHOOD
Chapter 7. Enhancing Fathering through Medical Research Participation in Mexico
Emily Wentzell
Chapter 8. The High-Tech Homunculus: New Science, Old Constructs
Linda G. Kahn and Wendy Chavkin
PART V: INFERTILE FATHERHOOD
Chapter 9. Assumed, Promised, Forbidden: Infertility, IVF, and Fatherhood in Turkey
Zeynep B. Gürtin
Chapter 10. New Arab Fatherhood: Emergent Masculinities and Assisted Reproduction
Marcia C. Inhorn
PART VI: GAY/SURROGATE FATHERHOOD
Chapter 11. Relating across International Borders: Gay Men Forming Families through Overseas Surrogacy
Deborah Dempsey
Chapter 12. Conceiving Fatherhood: Gay Men and Indian Surrogate Mother
Sharmila Rudrappa
PART VII: AMBIVALENT FATHERHOOD
Chapter 13. Fatherhood, Companionate Marriage, and the Contradictions of Masculinity in Nigeria
Daniel Jordan Smith
Chapter 14. The Four Faces of Iranian Fatherhood
Soraya Tremayne
PART VIII: IMPERILED FATHERHOOD
Chapter 15. “Bare Sticks” and Other Dangers to the Social Body Assembling Fatherhood in China
Susan Greenhalgh
Chapter 16. Paternity Poisoned: The Impact of Gulf War Syndrome on Fatherhood
Susie Kilshaw
List of Contributors
