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For decades, mothers were thought to be the only real influence on a child. Now we recognise that the father's involvement also has a profound impact but how sons affect their fathers is too often overlooked. In "My Father Before Me", Michael J. Diamond establishes fatherhood as an essential event for both the son's and the father's development. With chapters analysing the father/son relationship throughout the life cycle and demonstrating the powerful influence between them, Diamond calls for a more inclusive notion of masculinity, thus allowing men to access parts of themselves they previously ignored. He argues that sons are largely responsible for helping their fathers embrace this more flexible notion of manhood, making them better partners and better parents. Diamond has written an important book that enables us to make sense of the question of what it means to be a man.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: My Father Before Me
• Subtitle: How Fathers and Sons Influence Each Other Throughout Their Lives
• Author: Michael J. Diamond
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780393060607
• ISBN: 0393060608
• ID: 04603599
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Weight: 410 g
• Dimensions: 218 × 147 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. March 2007

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