Price: $34.95
Page Count: 306
Publication Date: February 2020
ISBN: 978-1-77258-218-5
This is the collection feminism needs. This collection demonstrates how important fathers are in the lives of the children, including how fathers have shaped their children’s feminism and thoughts on gender. Fathers, like mothers, can work toward dismantling patriarchy through the way they father/parent and this collection explores that so perfectly. This collection makes a significant impact on the study of fatherhood and motherhood and opens to the door to continue exploring this important topic.
- Heather Jackson, MA, MPH – Mental health counselor, birth doula, freelance writer and editor (Rhode Island, USA)
At long last! Feminist Fathering/Fathering Feminists presents us with a collection of essays that is deeply honest, beautifully nuanced and free of judgment. This collection is a must read for everyone who seeks to further appreciate, and likewise define, contemporary feminist fathering practices. Both hopeful and engaging, this collection shows us precisely where we are and how we arrived here.
- Kandee Kosior – editor Feminist Parenting
“The essays in this collection explore the underexamined and contested category “father” from an intersectional feminist perspective. Contributors ask: What is a father? What does fathering look like? These questions are important because all people have a stake in fathering; feminist parenting is not possible without personally and politically engaged fathers. This collection vividly dismantles harmful stereotypes and makes visible gender-troubling carework. The overarching theme is that there is no monolithic father. This volume represents an important contribution to feminist studies and is essential reading for those interested in fatherhood.”
--Lynn Comerford, Director of Women’s Studies, Department of Human Development and Women’s Studies, California State University, East Bay
Introduction
Nicole L. Willey
Your Father
Donna J. Gelagotis Lee
Opening Poem
Section 1: Fathers in Popular Culture and Literature
Dads Can Cuddle, Too: Feminism, ‘60s Sitcoms, and the Making of Modern Fatherhood Debra Michals
Why Are Stay-at-Home Fathers Viewed as Feminist Progress?
Steven D. Farough
Feminist Fathering in the Shadow of 9/11: The Lessons of Laila Halaby’s
Once in a Promised Land
Jeff Karem
“I’m the back-up parent. The understudy.”: Postfeminist Fatherhood in The Descendants
Katie Barnett
“We Raise Our Children to Believe that They Can Be Anything”: Analyzing the Feminist Fathering Possibilities on Black-ish
Nancy Bressler
Choose Your Own Fathering Style: Neil Patrick Harris and Feminist Fathering Nicole L. Willey
Caring Masculinities and Feminist Fathering in Contemporary Spain
Marina Bettaglio
Section 2: Fathering in Personal Contexts
Co-Parents Who Share Family Work: Feminism, Co-responsibility and “Mother Knows Best” in Spanish Heterosexual Couples
Bruna Alvarez
From Air Base to Home Base
Ginger Bihn-Coss
Father Figure
Lee Kahrs
Observations and Ramblings of a Feminist Father
Stuart Leeks
Can a Recovering Sexist Raise a Feminist?: Preparing a Boy to Thrive Post-Patriarchy
Josh Chaffin
To My Son
Jed Scott
Afterword
Dan Friedman
Nicole Willey is Professor of English at Kent State University Tuscarawas, where she teaches literatures and writing and serves as the Faculty Mentoring Program Coordinator for her campus. She authored Creating a New Ideal of Masculinity for American Men: The Achievement of Sentimental Women Writers in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, and co-edited the collection Motherhood Memoirs: Mothers Creating/Writing Lives. She lives in Ohio with her husband and two sons.
Dan Friedman studied music at York University, and got interested in
feminism while learning about cultural theory from Ioan Davies in grad
school. He lives in Toronto with his partner and four mostly delightful
children, splitting his remaining time (such as it is) between a web
consulting business, singing folk music, and Tai Chi.
