Full Description
This volume offers a comprehensive, up-to-date synopsis of fathering and father-child relationships in diverse regions of the world, helping students and practitioners alike understand cultural variations in male parenting.
Interest in the role of the father and his influence on children's development and economic well-being has grown considerably. This edited volume uses detailed accounts to provide culturally situated analysis of fathering in cultures around the world. The book's contributors, a multidisciplinary group of scholars, bring together the most recent theoretical thinking and research findings on fatherhood and fathering in cultural communities across developed, recently developed, and developing societies. They address such issues as fathering and gender equality in caregiving, concepts of masculinity in contemporary societies, fathering in various ethnic groups, immigrant fathers, fathering and childhood outcomes, and social policies as they affect and are affected by issues related to fathering.
Organized geographically, the book scrutinizes major sociocultural, demographic, economic, and other factors that influence men's relationships within families. It shows how economic conditions impact men's involvement with children and considers the effects of ideological belief systems and views of spousal/partner roles and responsibilities. The analysis is underpinned by recent data that underscores the significance of fathers' involvement with and investment in the well-being of their children.
Contents
Foreword Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Toward a Pancultural Understanding of Constructions and Meanings of Fathering
Jaipaul L. Roopnarine
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
2. African-Caribbean Fathers: The Conflict between Masculinity and Fathering
Patricia Anderson and Camille Daley
3. Fathering in Brazil
Ana M. A. Carvalho, Lucia V. C. Moreira, and Yumi Gosso
4. Fathering in México
Alejandra Salguero Velázquez
EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA
5. Contemporary Fatherhood in Sweden: Fathering across Work and Family Life
Lars Plantin
6. Fatherhood and Fathering in Eastern Europe
Zhanna Kravchenko and Mihaela Robila
7. Fathers in Portugal: From Old to New Masculinities
Karin Wall
8. African American Fathers and Families within Cultural and Historical Perspective
Vivian L. Gadsden, James Earl Davis, and Cleopatra Jacobs Johnson
9. Latino Fathers: Myths, Realities, and Challenges
Robert P. Moreno and Susan S. Chuang
10. Indigenous Fathers' Journeys in Canada: Turning around Disrupted Circles of Care
Jessica Ball and Sarah Moselle
11. European American Fathers
Rob Palkovitz, Kimberly Dutton, and James W. Hull
ASIA
12. Indian Fathers: Traditional with Changes on the Horizon
Jaipaul L. Roopnarine and Mine Göl-Güven
13. Fathering in Chinese Culture: Traditions and Transitions
Xuan Li and Michael E. Lamb
14. Fathering in Japan
Jun Nakazawa
TURKEY, ISRAEL, AND ARAB AND NON-ARAB ISLAMIC SOCIETIES
15. Fathering in Turkey
Aysegul Metindogan
16. Fathers in Israel: Contextualizing Images of Fatherhood
Roni Strier
17. Fathers across Arab and Non-Arab Islamic Societies
Ziarat Hossain and Rumaya Juhari
AFRICA
18. Black Fathers in South Africa
Tawanda Makusha and Linda Richter
19. Fathering in Kenya
Teresa Mwoma
20. Conclusion
Jaipaul L. Roopnarine
About the Editor and Contributors
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