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Soft patriarchs, new men :

Wilcox, William Bradford, 1970-

Soft patriarchs, new men : how Christianity shapes fathers and husbands / W. Bradford Wilcox. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2004. - ix, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Morality and society series . - Morality and society. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-321) and index.

Religion : a force for reaction in the gender revolution? -- Mainline and conservative Protestant production of family and gender culture, 1950-1995 -- Family and gender attitudes among mainline and conservative Protestants -- Soft patriarchs, new fathers : religion, ideology, and fatherhood -- Domestic rites and enchanted relations : religion, ideology, and household labor -- Tending her heart : religion, ideology, and emotion work in marriage -- Family modernization, the domestication of men, and the futures of fatherhood.

0226897087 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226897095 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2003016602


Christian men--Religious life--United States.
Families--Religious life--United States.

BV639.M4 / W55 2004

261.8/358742

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