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Article: Life with Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century American North. (Book Reviews).(Review)
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- Michigan Historical Review
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- September 22, 1999
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Stephen M. Frank. Life with Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century American North. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp. 240. Index. Cloth, $34.95.
Recently on the Internet I came across a young man who was enraged by the fact that a feminist scholar appropriated the term "gender studies" for research exclusively on women. It is somewhat hard to comprehend how a heterosexual might be drawn to the field without some understanding that it grew out of women's history. Thus, Stephen M. Frank's excellent new book is doubly interesting since it focuses on men and fatherhood in the period when the "cult of tree womanhood" seemed ...