| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Stephen M. Frank. Life with Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century American North. (Gender Relations in the American Experience.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1998. Pp. x, 240. $34.95.

The notion of distinct male and female social spheres in nineteenth-century America has suffered severe erosion for several years now. True, fundamental differences between the sexes were assumed, and in the broadest arrangement of society men and women were assigned separate places, but the closer we look, the more the boundaries between the two spheres blur. The new understanding has come from several sources, including a closer look at the dailiness of men's lives. Stephen M. Frank has taken this line of investigation a step further. His concise and nicely argued study of fatherhood further compromises the line between behavior, responsibilities, and perceptions in the domestic lives of men and women. . . .

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