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624 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2009)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0624 and id is 1 raw text is: PREFACE Fathering across Diversity and Adversity: International Perspectives and Policy Interventions By ROSALIND EDWARDS, ANDREA DOUCET, and FRANK F. FURSTENBERG Over the past few decades, scholarship and policy interest in fatherhood, as an institu- tional position with associated public meanings, and fathering, as sets of activities and emotions, has burgeoned. In research terms, it has taken a trajectory from being relatively ignored in the 1970s and 1980s, through being a hot topic in the 1990s, and then emerging as a relatively established subspecialty of several disciplinary fields in the early years of the twenty-first century. The breadth of research on the topic ranges across developmental, social, and cultural concerns and encompasses both Rosalind Edwards is a professor in social policy and director of the Families & Social Capital ESRC Research Group at London South Bank University. She has researched and published on a variety of fam- ily issues. Her most recent publications include Risk and Citizenship: Key Issues in Welfare (edited with J. Glover RoutledgeFalmer 2001); Children, Home and School: Regulation, Autonomy or Connection (edited; RoutledgeFalmer 2002); and Making Families: Moral Tales of Parenting and Step-parenting (with J. Ribbens McCarthy and V Gillies; sociologypress 2003). She coedits (with J. Brannen) the International Journal of Social Research Methodology: Theory and Practice. Andrea Doucet is an associate professor in sociology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of Do Men Mother? (University of Toronto Press 2006) which was awarded the 2007 John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award from the Canadian Sociology Association. She is also coauthor of Gender Relations: Intersectionality and Beyond (with Janet Siltanen; Oxford University Press 2008) and is currently writing a book on women as primary breadwinners. She has published widely on qualitative methodologies, epistemology, reflexivity, gender equality and gender differences in parenting, and embodiment. Frank F Fursten berg is the Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology and a research associate at the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written extensively on issues relating to family change over the past four decades. His most recent book, Destinies of the Disadvantaged: The Politics of Teenage Childbearing, was published by Russell Sage in 2007. His current research examines the well-being of middle- income families in Canada and the United States. DOI: 10.1177/0002716209334347 ANNALS, AAPSS, 624, July 2009 6

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