Trish,
Thanks for the new book overview- I value this input you have to the list,
having also purchased some of the texts you've spoken about. You closing
questions are certainly ones worth pondering.
Is the Tom Sutton specifically on fatherhood? Would it be one to pass onto some
of the homebirth dad's I work with? I'm after a good reference for them.
My bedtime read at the moment is 'Woman... An Intimate Geography' by Natalie
Angier Virago Press 1999. Recommended by Carolyn Hastie at a seminar held up
here on the Far North Coast. A very affirming read, new tit bits and
understanding to be had without the complexity. A lovely reprieve from my
masters research readings and writings.
Heard from a local midwife that the Tassy conference was inspirational - sad
that I couldn't make it and (amongst other things) meet some of the chat line
midwives. I look foward to to doing this at the Byron Conference this weekend.
Cheers,
Heather.
Trish David wrote:
> Dear all, I have just dipped into the new book I bought at the Hobart
> Conference, written by
> Deborah Lupton and Lesley Barclay, called Constructing Fatherhood,
> discourses and experiences. I have read much of Lupton's work before in
> other areas and find this an interesting addition in terms of subject
> matter. Though this book was published in 1997 it is new to me.
>
> The book is really well set out, but not for the fainthearted, especially
> if they are not well read in post structuralist literature, although it is
> certainly not as 'dense' as some! I have skimmed some of all chapters and
> can't wait for some time to really get into it. I am keen especially to
> read in greater depth the chapter titled "Fatherhood in the Popular Media"
> which goes into how men and fathers in particular are represented in sit
> coms, dramas, advertising on tv, etc. and how this has evolved over time.
> It makes a nice counterpoint for me when I'm reading and working with
> representations of motherhood.
>
> If you are interested in this topic, and have read Tom Morton's Altered
> Mates (a less scholarly but no less informative work also puclished in
> 1997), then I think this book will interest you. And as the authors
> suggest in their introduction, it helps to fill a hiatius about writings in
> masculinities that have tended to under-represent the importance of
> fatherhood in discourses about men. If there is one point of curiosity for
> me it is in the turnaround. Once women were studied by men for all sorts
> of purposes and feminism gave women's studies back to women. Now women are
> studying men, particularly fathers. Are we qualified or authorised, or are
> we the new colonists???
>
> Cheers, Trish
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