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Soft Patriarchs, New Men How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands

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ISBN-10: 0226897095

ISBN-13: 9780226897097

Edition: 2004

Authors: W. Bradford Wilcox

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Wilcox looks at both mainline & evangelical Protestant teachings since the 1950s & argues that there are perceivable differences between the attitudes of fathers & husbands, according to which sect they follow.
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Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 338
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

W. Bradford Wilcox is Director of the National Marriage Project and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia.

Acknowledgments
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
Conclusion: Family Modernization, the Domestication of Men, and the Futures of Fatherhood
Appendix: Data, Methods, and Tables
Notes
List of Works Cited
Index