Keywords

fathering, fatherhood, theory, family

Abstract

When it comes to scholarship on fatherhood (especially my own), I have too often found myself asking the question, "Could this argument really hold up in a variety of fathering circumstances?" However, by the time I finished Situated Fathering: A Focus on Physical and Social Spaces, I no longer needed to ask that question. Instead, I felt confident that the volume's editors and authors offered a more sound theoretical and empirical foundation for the exploration of fathering settings and circumstances than most other work I have read.

Original Publication Citation

Holmes, E. K. (2008). Situated fathering: A focus on physical and social spaces, edited by W. Marsiglio, K. Roy, and G. Litton Fox. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005. Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Practice about Men as Fathers, 6(3), 285-286.