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ARC Paperback - Fatherhood by Augustine Sedgewick (2025)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Signed
- No
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition
- Book Series
- Long London Ser.
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- 1st Edition
- Original Language
- English
- Age Level
- Adults
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- ISBN
- 9781668046296
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1668046296
ISBN-13
9781668046296
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10072097337
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fatherhood : a History of Love and Power
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2025
Topic
Parenting / Fatherhood, Sociology / General, Men's Studies, Social History
Genre
Family & Relationships, Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
16.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2024-056422
Reviews
"[A] winsome and erudite study of patriarchy...Sedgwick teases out the contradictions between patriarchy as a doctrine of benevolent control and its reality as a form of constraint and domination that often breeds resistance. He plays on these ironies in elegant, evocative prose...It's fresh and insightful meditation on the paternal dilemma." --Publishers Weekly "Sharp...Augstine Sedgewick is an undeniably talented prose stylist with estimable dot-connecting abilities...this book engages in interesting ways with assumptions about fathers of nations, faiths, and families." --Kirkus Reviews, "What is a father, exactly? To answer this question, Augustine Sedgewick cracks open the lives of those before him, nearly all predating the great feminist thinkers who guide his inquiry. Absorbing, rigorous, and profoundly moving, Fatherhood is an exquisite narrative history that offers new ways of thinking about masculinity and the modern family." --Kate Bolick, author of Spinster "We have mainly relied on feminist theory to tell the difficult truth and harms of patriarchy, but Fatherhood adds to that important canon. It is an invigorating, impressively researched, and honest read. Anyone doing the work of dismantling and reframing the heavy role of the father will find something here." --Raymond Antrobus, author of Signs, Music "Fatherhood is a richly absorbing piece of history embedded in a wealth of wonderful storytelling. A pleasure to read." --Vivian Gornick, author of The Odd Woman and the City, "[A] winsome and erudite study of patriarchy...Sedgwick teases out the contradictions between patriarchy as a doctrine of benevolent control and its reality as a form of constraint and domination that often breeds resistance. He plays on these ironies in elegant, evocative prose...It's fresh and insightful meditation on the paternal dilemma." --Publishers Weekly, "Sedgewick describes how thinking about dads has changed over time. What is striking is the sheer variety of nonsense that people have believed . . . [but he] concludes on a personal note. When he asks his young son what a father should be, the boy replies that a dad should be 'funny and good at hugging.' As parenting advice goes, that is hard to beat." --The Economist, "Sharp...Augstine Sedgewick is an undeniably talented prose stylist with estimable dot-connecting abilities...this book engages in interesting ways with assumptions about fathers of nations, faiths, and families." --Kirkus Reviews, "Superbly intelligent . . . [a] rewarding Sapiens -style big history." --The Times (UK) "A deeply fascinating and strikingly humane read." -- The Observer (UK) "Sedgewick describes how thinking about dads has changed over time. What is striking is the sheer variety of nonsense that people have believed . . . [but he] concludes on a personal note. When he asks his young son what a father should be, the boy replies that a dad should be 'funny and good at hugging.' As parenting advice goes, that is hard to beat." --The Economist
Dewey Edition
23/eng/20250203
Dewey Decimal
306.874/209
Synopsis
"Superbly intelligent...[a] rewarding Sapiens -style big history." --The Times (London) A bold and original history of fatherhood, exploring its invention and transformation from the Bronze Age to the present through a collective portrait of emblematic fathers who have helped to define how the world should be ruled and what it means to be a man. Fatherhood is one of the most meaningful aspects of human culture, but we know little about when or where fatherhood first emerged, or even how or why. Despite its enigmatic beginnings, fatherhood has, for centuries, given shape to ideas about the world, defined human experiences, and provided the foundation of patriarchy. The history of fatherhood is not just the story of one of humanity's great values: caring for those who cannot care for themselves. And it is not merely the story of patriarchy--"the power of fathers"--which is arguably the oldest and most widespread form of social hierarchy and political oppression. It is the story of how these twin strands of history became so entangled that they are often indistinguishable. In Fatherhood , celebrated historian Augustine Sedgewick explains how this style of parenting emerged in the first place, why it has changed over time, and whether it will endure as we know it, despite its extraordinary costs. Told through the lives of emblematic fathers like Aristotle, Saint Augustine, Henry VIII, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin, and Sigmund Freud, this is an ambitious yet intimate look at how masculinity has evolved and how men have come to hold disproportionate power by expanding and reinforcing the power of fathers in times of crisis. Sedgewick, acclaimed for his "literary gifts and prodigious research" ( The Atlantic ), takes us from the Bronze Age to the present to revolutionize our understanding of fathers and challenge the fictions that have surrounded them for centuries. Fatherhood transforms our understanding of this fundamental idea, experience, and institution, allowing us to better know our past and re-envision our common future.
LC Classification Number
HQ756.S4335 2025
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