Full Description
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.
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
