A selected bibliography
Father’s Day is June 20th and while you’re deciding what to give Dad this year, spend some time browsing our selection of materials on fatherhood. The books are on display at the library entrance and may be checked out.
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Fatherhood and Society
What it means to be daddy: fatherhood for black men living away from their children / Jennifer Hamer
(LOWER LEVEL) E185.86 .H28 2001
Fathers and daughters: a father’s powerful influence on a woman’s life / William S. Appleton
(LOWER LEVEL) HQ756 .A66
COUNSELING CENTER
Father-child relations: cultural and biosocial contexts / Barry S. Hewlett, editor
(LOWER LEVEL) HQ756 .F369 1992
Fathers, sons, and daughters: exploring fatherhood, renewing the bond / edited by Charles S. Scull
(LOWER LEVEL) HQ756 .F387 1992
The modernization of fatherhood: a social and political history / Ralph LaRossa
(LOWER LEVEL) HQ756 .L37 1997
Fatherhood and families in cultural context / Frederick W. Bozett, Shirley M.H. Hanson, editors
(LOWER LEVEL) HQ756 .F375 1990
Life without fathers: compelling new evidence that fatherhood and marriage are indispensable for the good of children and society / David Popenoe
(LOWER LEVEL) HQ756 .P65 1996
Fathers’ liberation ethics: a holistic ethical advocacy for active nurturant fathering / Gary Ritner
(LOWER LEVEL) HQ756 .R57 1992
Passionate attachments: fathers and daughters in America today / Signe Hammer
(LOWER LEVEL) HQ777 .H26 1982
Finding our fathers: the unfinished business of manhood / Samuel Osherson
(LOWER LEVEL) HQ1090 .O85 1986
What men want: mothers, fathers, and manhood / John Munder Ross
(LOWER LEVEL) HQ1090 .R7 1994
About men: reflections on the male experience / edited and with an introduction by Edward Klein and Don Erickson
(LOWER LEVEL) HQ1090.3 .A26 1987
Victimized daughters: incest and the development of the female self / Janet Liebman Jacobs
(LOWER LEVEL) HV6570.7 .J33 1994
GENDER RESOURCE CENTER/HOLMES HOUSE
Father hunger: fathers, daughters & food / Margo Maine
(UPPER LEVEL) RJ506.E18 M35 1991
My baby’s father: unmarried parents and paternal responsibility / Maureen R. Waller
ON ORDER
Fathers in literature and personal memoirs
The bookmaker’s daughter: a memory unbound / Shirley Abbot
(LOWER LEVEL) CT275.A149 A3 1991
Sweet summer: growing up with and without my dad / Bebe Moore Campbell
BROWSING (MAIN) E185.97.C246 A3 2000
Two for the summit: my daughter, the mountains, and me / Geoffrey Norman
(LOWER LEVEL) GV200.2 .N67 2000
The absent father in modern drama / Paul Rosefeldt
(UPPER LEVEL) PN1821 .R67 1995
Half the way home: a memoir of father and son / Adam Hochschild
(UPPER LEVEL) PN4874.H58 A3 1986
Big Russ and me: father and son: lessons of life / Tim Russert
BROWSING (MAIN) PN4874.R78 A3 2004
Father figures: genealogy and narrative structure in Rabelais / Carla Freccero
(UPPER LEVEL) PQ1697.F38 F7 1991
Monsters of affection: Dickens, Eliot, & Bronte on fatherhood / Dianne F. Sadoff
(UPPER LEVEL) PR878.F37 S2 1982
Shakespeare’s daughters / Sharon Hamilton
(UPPER LEVEL) PR2992.D38 H36 2003
Domination and defiance: fathers and daughters in Shakespeare / Diane Elizabeth Dreher
(UPPER LEVEL) PR2992.F3 D74 1986
Shakespeare’s restorations of the father / David Sundelson
(UPPER LEVEL) PR3069.F37 S86 1983
“My hideous progeny”: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the father-daughter relationship / Katherine C. Hill-Miller
(UPPER LEVEL) PR5398 .H5 1995 c.2
Darkness at heart: fathers and sons in Conrad / Catharine Rising
(UPPER LEVEL) PR6005.O4 Z7878 1990
Joyce and the law of the father / Frances L. Restuccia
(UPPER LEVEL) PR6019.O9 Z78437 1989
The blue formica table / Robert Welch
(UPPER LEVEL) PR6073.E3725 B57 1999
“The Blue Formica Table is a long poem, a book of conversations between the poet and his father
I had a father: a post-modern autobiography / Clark Blaise
(UPPER LEVEL) PR9199.3.B48 Z465 1993
Refiguring the father: new feminist readings of patriarchy / edited by Patricia Yaeger and Beth Kowaleski-Wallace
(UPPER LEVEL) PS169.P36 R44 1989
Writing the absence of the father: undoing Oedipal structures in the contemporary American novel / Francesco Aristide Ancona
(UPPER LEVEL) PS374.F35 A53 1986
The American Abraham: James Fenimore Cooper and the frontier patriarch / Warren Motley
(UPPER LEVEL) PS1442.P38 M6 1987
Conversations with my father: a play / by Herb Gardner
(UPPER LEVEL) PS3513.A6333 C65 1994
Summer of deliverance: a memoir of father and son / Christopher Dickey
(UPPER LEVEL) PS3554.I318 Z88 1998
When the fighting is all over: the memoir of a Marine Corps general’s daughter / by Katie Letcher Lyle
(UPPER LEVEL) PS3562.Y4 Z475 1997
The father / by Sharon Olds
(UPPER LEVEL) PS3565.L34 F38 1992
Fatheralong: a meditation on fathers and sons, race and society / John Edgar Wideman
COUNSELING CENTER
Things I should have said to my father / Joanna Powell
COUNSELING CENTER
Fatherhood in children’s literature
With a little help from daddy / by Dan Andreasen
CHILD OVER (LOWER) Easy An557w
Martin’s father / Margrit Eichler
CHILD LIT (LOWER) Easy Ei34m
All alone with daddy / Illustrated by Dorothy Lake Gregory
CHILD LIT (LOWER) Easy F249a
The handsomest father / Deborah Hautzig ; pictures by Muriel Batherman
CHILD LIT (LOWER) Easy H382h
Daddy and me: a photo story of Arthur Ashe and his daughter, Camera / photographs and words by anne Moutoussamy-Ashe
CHILD LIT (LOWER) Easy M934d
My daddy don’t go to work / Madeena Spray Nolan ; ill. by Jim LaMarche
CHILD LIT (LOWER) Easy N788m
My Daddy / Susan Paradis
CHILD OVER (LOWER) Easy P222m
Daddy is a monster … sometimes / John Steptoe
CHILD LIT (LOWER) Easy St837d
A father like that / Charlotte Zolotow. Pictures by Ben Shecter
CHILD LIT (LOWER) Easy Z86f
I can be a father / by Patrick Clinton
CHILD LIT (LOWER) 306.8 C641i
Daddy’s climbing tree / by C.S. Adler
CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 Ad237d
Uncle Daddy / by Ralph Fletcher
CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 F614u
The night daddy / drawings by Harald Gripe. Translated from the Swedish by Gerry Bothmer
CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 G8688n
The one bad thing about father / F. N. Monjo. Pictures by Rocco Negri
CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 M745o
How your mother and father met, and what happened after / Tobi Tobias ; illustrated by Diane de Groat
CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 T627h
In daddy’s arms I am tall: African Americans celebrating fathers / illustrated by Javaka Steptoe
CHILD LIT (LOWER) 811.52 In35i
Our fathers had powerful songs / Natalia Belting. Illustrated by Laszlo Kubinyi
CHILD LIT (LOWER) 897 B453o
