Soft Patriarchs, New Men
Subtitle: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands (Morality and Society Series)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: May 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780226897080
Subjects: Men's studies; Social Science; Sociology; Christian Life - Men's Issues; Gender Studies; Sociology of Religion; Social Science / Sociology of Religion; General; Christian men; Christianity; Family relationships; Fatherhood; Protestants; Religious aspects; United States
First sentence: IN 1994, Tony Evans, a black evangelical pastor from Dallas, Texas, delivered variations of the message quoted in the epigraph above to more than 200,000 men across the United States who attended stadium events sponsored by Promise Keepers (PK) that year.
Table of contents: title: Religion : a force for reaction in the gender revolution?; title: Mainline and conservative Protestant production of family and gender culture, 1950-1995; title: Family and gender attitudes among mainline and conservative Protestants; title: Soft patriarchs, new fathers : religion, ideology, and fatherhood; title: Domestic rites and enchanted relations : religion, ideology, and household labor; title: Tending her heart : religion, ideology, and emotion work in marriage; title: Family modernization, the domestication of men, and the futures of fatherhood