Contemporary fathering: Theory, policy and practice - Softcover

Featherstone, Brigid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861349874 ISBN 13: 9781861349873

Publisher: Policy Press, 2009

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"This important book fills a huge gap in understandings of fathering in social policy and social work. Theoretically sophisticated, yet accessible, it links insights from sociology, psychology and gender studies to policy and practice agendas to provide compelling arguments about why and how fathers need to be engaged with in social interventions. It is required reading for academics, policy makers and practitioners." --Harry Ferguson, Professor of Social Work, University of Nottingham

"Brid Featherstone's Contemporary Fathering is a brilliantly researched, richly detailed, and eloquent book that speaks across, and to, a range of complementary theoretical perspectives that are rarely joined in current writing on fatherhood. Drawing on her decade-long experience as a researcher and educator working in child welfare issues in Britain, Featherstone's writing embraces theoretical sophistication, accessibility, and real life examples of the challenges involved in developing father-inclusive programs and services. This book will have wide appeal to academics, service providers, policy makers, and the general public interested in families and changing fatherhood in the twenty-first century." --Andrea Doucet, Professor of Sociology, Carleton University (Canada), and author of Do Men Mother?

Synopsis:

Since 1997, child welfare services have been faced with new demands to engage fathers or develop father-inclusive services. This book emerges from work by the author as a researcher and educator over many years on the issues posed by this agenda for child welfare practitioners in a variety of contexts. In locating fathers, fathering and fatherhood within a historical and social landscape, the book addresses issues seldom taken up in practice settings. It explores diversity and complexity in fathering in different disciplines such as psychoanalysis, sociology and psychology and analyses contemporary developments in social policies and welfare practices.The author employs a feminist perspective to highlight the opportunities and dangers in contemporary developments for those wishing to advance gender equity. A key strength of the book is its inter-disciplinary focus. It will be required reading for students, graduate and post-graduate, of social work, social policy, sociology and child and family studies. Academic researchers will also find the book invaluable because of its breadth of scholarship.

About this edition

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1861349874
• ISBN 13: 9781861349873
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232