TY - JOUR
AU - Wood, Warren C.
AB - 226 Journal of Social History Fall 2014 strands of U.S. policy and ideology that linked the poor at home and abroad, pro- vocatively recasts postwar liberalism, and invites further research on international development and the relationship between ascendant forms of “poverty knowledge.” Amy C. Offner University of Pennsylvania doi:10.1093/jsh/shu064 offner@sas.upenn.edu Of War and Men: World War II in the Lives of Fathers and Their Families.By Ralph LaRossa (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. xiv plus 307 pp.). Of War and Men is sociologist Ralph LaRossa’s follow up history to his well- received The Modernization of Fatherhood (1997). It picks up where that volume left off on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor and weaves a narrative that ends with the inauguration of John F. Kennedy. His thesis is that, in spite of its wide variabilities of practice and cultural treatment—what LaRossa differentiates as “the conduct of fatherhood” versus “the culture of fatherhood” (10)—gender roles became more rigid in the wake of World War II and during the development of the Cold War. As a result, he observes a greater emphasis on the “traditional” father’s role of breadwinner and the diminution of the “father-as-pal” and (at least) 
TI - Of War and Men: World War II in the Lives of Fathers and Their Families. By Ralph LaRossa (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. xiv plus 307 pp.)
JF - Journal of Social History
DO - 10.1093/jsh/shu065
DA - 2014-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/of-war-and-men-world-war-ii-in-the-lives-of-fathers-and-their-families-r4TP57AzWc
SP - 226
EP - 227
VL - 48
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -