Beyond patriarchy
Subtitle: Jewish fathers and families
By: Lawrence H. Fuchs.
Publisher: Published by University Press of New England, Brandeis University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Patriarchy -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.; Jewish families -- Conduct of life -- History.; Patriarchy -- History.; Women in Judaism -- History.; Jewish families -- United States -- Social conditions.
Description: "Lawrence H. Fuchs, author of Family Matters, argues that the link between male dominance and fatherhood is no longer iron-clad. Analyzing the universality of patriarchy and its incentives for cultural fatherhood, Fuchs concedes that the importance of biological differences between the sexes was a possible, even plausible, basis for the evolution of patriarchy.

But in this timely work he imagines a new paradigm of fatherhood for a post-patriarchal age, one inspired by the history of Jewish patriarchy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.