September 13, 2009
I received a truly humbling group of blurbs from scholars I truly respect:
"Students will love the The Daddy Shift because it offers compelling personal stories and focuses on issues that are important to young people. Instructors will adopt it because it introduces the reader to multiple fields of scholarship and asks provocative questions. The Daddy Shift is appropriate for classes focusing on topics related to family, marriage, parenting, gender, social change, work-life issues, social psychology and public policy." -- Scott Coltrane, Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon, author of Family Man and Gender and Families
"I have used the portrait Jeremy crafts of these amazing couples' lives in both my scholarship and in my classroom. The Daddy Shift paints a compelling picture of the joys and struggles of going against the grain of contemporary work and family life. Jeremy's ability to weave together research and personal narrative is exceptional." -- Caryn Medved, associate professor of communication studies, Baruch College, City University of New York
“The Daddy Shift skillfully melds factual and historical data with a style that brings to life these important issues of family, parenting, and fatherhood. I would assign this in my upper-division course on U.S. women and the economy, and I would use this material for a course on masculinities that is currently in development.” -- Shira Tarrant, professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies, California State University, Long Beach; author of Men and Feminism
"It's not easy for a book to successfully integrate research and theory in a book targeted to a broad audience. In The Daddy Shift, Jeremy Adam Smith achieves this goal, yielding a book appropriate for gender studies course, in between diaper changes, or a long afternoon on the beach."--Aaron Rochlen, associate professor of counseling psychology, University of Texas at Austin
