Deadbeat Dads : : Subjectivity and Social Construction / / Deena Mandell.

The "deadbeat dad" is a common figure in today's news media. As an experienced social worker, family therapist and mediator, Deena Mandell is intimate with legal and institutional discourses on the topic, but also with the lived reality of those involved in support conflict. In Deadbe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Fathers and Divorce: Personal and Institutional Processes
  • 2. The Study
  • 3. The Fathers7 Perspective
  • 4. Looking at Legal Texts
  • 5. How the Institutional Informants See It
  • 6. Putting It All Together
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index