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Antebellum Period
Author_Shawn Johansen
Birth Process
Birthing Room
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Cemetery Monuments
century
childhood education practices
Children Wet Nurses
Circuit Court
class
colonial
Colonial Father
Dead Beat
Dead Beat Dads
Deer Island
domestic labor roles
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Fam Ilies
Father Child Relationship
fatherhood
fathers
george
history of masculinity
Infant Children
John Pintard
Large Family
Mason Dixon Line
middle
Middle Class Fatherhood
Middle Class Fathers
Middle Class Men
nineteenth
Nineteenth Century Fatherhood
Nineteenth Century Fathers
Nineteenth Century Middle Class
nineteenth century parenting dynamics
paternal emotional engagement
religious influence in parenting
strong
templeton
Vast Meaning
Victorian era social norms
Violated
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415917872
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Apr 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The image of the cold and distant Victorian patriarch, whose domestic roles were limited to those of provider and disciplinarian, is one that still dominates the way we think about nineteenth-century fatherhood. In Family Men, Shawn Johansen reveals that this myth has very little to do with the complex domestic lives these men actually led. Fathers routinely engaged in numerous domestic chores, cared for children, and took a far more active role in parenting then previously thought. Using a rich selection of personal writings, Johansen resurrects the voices of nineteenth-century fathers, uncovering how their feelings during childbirth, their views on education and religion, the ways their relationship to their children changed as they both grew older, and their attitudes toward many other domestic matters. Family Men is a sophisticated and compelling addition to the growing literature on the history of masculinity and the family.
Shawn Johansen is an Assistant Professor of History at Frostburg State University in Maryland. He lives in Frostburg, Maryland.
