Recently added articles from Fathering:
Fathers and the media: introduction to the special issue.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Kelly, Janice ... Since the 1970s, there has been an increased scholarly interest in fatherhood. There have been fundamental shifts in family life, gender relations, declining wage of male earners, increases in female labor force participation and in men's involvement as the primary non-maternal care ...
Does father still know best? An inductive thematic analysis of popular TV sitcoms.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Pehlke, Timothy Allen, II ... Domestic situational television comedies were examined for various themes of father involvement. Twelve programs from the six major networks were recorded during the fall 2004 season. All instances that involved either discussion or fulfillment of the father role were transcribed ....
The depictions of fathers and children in best-selling picture books in the United States: a hybrid semiotic analysis.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Quinn, Suzanne M. Flannery ... This research examines the presence and depictions of fathers in best-selling picture books in the U.S. using a hybrid semiotic approach. In 200 best-selling picture books for children, among those featuring only a father or only a mother, fathers are featured as prominent as a parent in ...
Trends in academic attention to fathers, 1930-2006.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Goldberg, Wendy A. ... This systematic analysis of 1115 articles in five child development and family journals was conducted to: 1) examine whether academic attention to fathers has increased over time, and 2) describe temporal changes in content areas relevant to fathering and child development. Each article ...
Good and bad fathers as moral rhetoric in Wall Street.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Jordan, John W. ... This essay reads the narrative dynamics between the "good" and "bad" father personas in Oliver Stone's Wall Street as arguments seeking to persuade audiences about the morality of the father/son relationship. Specifically, the film develops an argumentative logic advancing one patriarchal ...
