Globalized Fatherhood

This edited collection is a companion volume to The Globalization of Motherhood: Deconstructions and Reconstructions of Biology and Care. It examines the uneven and sometimes contradictory changes in the behaviors and roles of fathers around the world. The book comprises 16 chapters, most of them based on original ethnographic research by anthropologists, human geographers and sociologists. In addition, it draws from public health, medicine, public policy, political science and demography. Chapters focus on designing family leave policy aimed at working fathers and gender equality; increased involvement of fathers in family work in Japan; parenting tools available to adoptive and migrant fathers in Peru and Spain; changing fathering practices in Vietnam, Indonesia and the Phillipines due to feminization of labor migration; Palestinian fathers seeking treatment for their children in Israeli hospitals; Mexican men as volunteer subjects of research into HPV transmission; technologically assisted reproduction; fatherhood and infertility in Turkey and other Arab countries; gay men forming families through overseas surrogacy in the U.S., India and Australia; and similar issues in Nigeria, Iran and China, and among Gulf War veterans in the U.S. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Jose-Alberto Navarro is an MSc student at HEC Paris. His most recent work examines processes of fragmentation, objectification, and masculine body commodification within invisible and illicit economies created through social-networking applications. Navarro’s research focuses on exploring the intersections of economics, finance, gender, and anthropology.