An invigorating, impressively researched and honest read. Anyone doing the work of dismantling and reframing the heavy role of the father will find something here -- Raymond Antrobus, author of Signs, Music An engrossing chronicle of fatherhood . . . studious research and literary agility makes Fatherhood a deeply fascinating and strikingly humane read. * The Observer * A richly absorbing piece of history embedded in a wealth of wonderful storytelling. A pleasure to read -- Vivian Gornick, author of Fierce Attachments and The Odd Woman and the City Artfully examined . . . highly informative . . . Fatherhood shows that the hidden truth of fatherhood and masculinity is that they are concepts we make and can be remade. * Financial Times * Intelligent . . . The author is an undeniably talented prose stylist with estimable dot-connecting abilities. -- Kirkus Absorbing, rigorous, and profoundly moving, Fatherhood is an exquisite narrative history that offers new ways of thinking about masculinity and the modern family -- Kate Bolick, author of Spinster Fathers role in upholding the social order and their struggles with unruly sons are probed in this winsome and erudite study of patriarchy . . . Sedgwick teases out the contradictions between patriarchy as a doctrine of benevolent control and its reality as a form of constraint and domination that often breeds resistance. He plays on these ironies in elegant, evocative prose. Its a fresh and insightful meditation on the paternal dilemma. * Publishers Weekly * Examines not only recent shifts, but the continuous process of change that runs through the centuries . . . a fascinating survey and a book with a particular relevance today. * Unseen Histories * Explains the surprising roots of our modern masculinity crisis. * GQ *
