| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

Family Men: Middle-Class Fatherhood in Early Industrializing America. By Shawn Johansen. (New York: Routledge, 2001. xiv, 249 pp. Cloth, $80.00, ISBN 0-415-91786-7. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-415-91787-5.)

Antebellum middle-class fathers have been stiffed by historians of the American family. Scholars have accused those men of abandoning the home to women and of choosing ambition and profession over the traditional fathering duties of their colonial forebears. Stereotyped in their public identities as businessmen, their domestic roles have been generalized as "declining," "absent," even "withered away." Shawn Johansen's book attempts to expose this standard interpretation as a popular myth: antebellum-era fathers, he claims, never gave up their child-rearing roles to women and wives; they remained powerful figures in the emerging middle-class household and were directly involved in practically every concern and task of the "domestic sphere." . . .

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