No man's land : men's changing commitments to family and work /

Men, like women, are finding it increasingly difficult to "have it all." How are they responding to the new realities of our time - the cataclysmic changes caused by the women's movement and by diminished economic opportunities? Here is the first authoritative, in-depth answer. Based...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gerson, Kathleen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : BasicBooks, [1993]
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Table of Contents:
  • I: Men's quiet revolution
  • The changing contours of American manhood
  • II: Paths of change
  • The child and the man
  • Turning toward breadwinning
  • Turning toward autonomy
  • Turning toward family involvement
  • Dilemmas of breadwinning and autonomy
  • Dilemmas of involved fatherhood
  • III: The causes and consequences of change
  • The myth of masculinity
  • Men and the politics of gender.