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Leah Taragin-Zeller's book "The State of Desire" delves into the complexities of family planning choices among religious couples in Israel, particularly Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox communities. The study challenges traditional assumptions about religious adherence and family ideals by applying queer theory to reproductive politics. Through ethnographic research, Taragin-Zeller explores how religious couples navigate societal expectations, economic constraints, and religious obligations in their decisions regarding family size and reproductive choices. The book sheds light on the nuanced experiences of religious individuals grappling with conflicting desires and reshaping community norms from within, offering valuable insights into religious subjectivity and identity. [Extracted from the article]

The book "Spiritual Fatherhood and its Perversions" by Pavel Sysoev offers an overview of spiritual fatherhood in Christianity and the different types of guidance. It highlights the importance of spiritual fatherhood in societies where the figure of the father has disappeared. The book also addresses the pathologies of spiritual guidance and proposes solutions. It mentions the types of spiritual guidance and emphasizes the importance of humility and respect for the norms of the Church to prevent abuses. In summary, the book offers an overview and proposes measures to prevent pathologies in spiritual guidance. [Extracted from the article]

"Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade" by Sara Matthiesen explores the limitations of reproductive choice for women in the United States after the landmark Supreme Court case. The author argues that access to legal abortion alone does not grant women full autonomy, as they also need resources to create families. The book examines various challenges faced by women in family-making, including legal biases against lesbian parents, obstacles faced by incarcerated women, healthcare inequalities, and the lack of state support such as paid parental leave and childcare. The author also highlights the efforts of anti-abortion organizations in providing assistance to pregnant women, albeit with strings attached. The book concludes that barriers to family-making persist, including recent threats to abortion access and ongoing healthcare inequalities. [Extracted from the article]

Ultimately, she suggests that chewing on the ways we mediate gender through food and food media will remain a rich (and potentially delicious) arena for understanding our society and ourselves. Contois, Emily JH Review of Diners, Dudes, and Diets: How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media and Culture. [Extracted from the article]

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"Father Involvement and Gender Equality in the United States: Contemporary Norms and Barriers" by Richard J. Petts explores the cultural and societal factors that contribute to the unequal division of labor within families. The book argues that while contemporary fathers are expected to be more involved in their children's lives, there is still a significant imbalance in caregiving tasks and career penalties faced by women. Petts introduces the concept of the "fully engaged dad" and analyzes the cultural norms and workplace structures that hinder father involvement. The book suggests that providing fathers with paid paternity leave could help address these issues and promote gender equality within families. The multi-method approach used in the book makes it accessible and suitable for undergraduate courses on the family or sociology. [Extracted from the article]

While those archetypes did often appear onscreen under Stalin, Dumanci'c shows that Stalinist masculinity had its own pluralities - and in doing so, he successfully avoids opening the book with an easy Stalinist strawman. Dumanci'c's sources insulate Soviet men from the usual markers of post-Stalin society: war recovery, including disability, and Cold War sabre rattling. It is bold but effective of Dumanci'c to frame men's ennui in this way, as part of a pattern of modernity anxieties in common with the West, rather than the result of the USSR's unique wartime and Stalin-era experiences. [Extracted from the article]

Florsheim and Moore begin the book by introducing the study from which their sketches of adolescent fathers (and mothers) are drawn, and they provide the rationale, methodology, aims, and research questions driving the text. From their larger study and sample, Florsheim and Moore selected a subsample of fathers to highlight in this book, based on two predictions they made about the sample in the larger study. To help highlight the variation in experiences among fathers in the study, in each section Florsheim and Moore pair fathers' experiences to represent both ends of the topical discussion. [Extracted from the article]

Family System Theory Family system theory (FST) provides a foundation for understanding the intricacies of family and fatherhood during incarceration and reentry. The authors emphasize the importance of maintaining the relationship between fathers and their families during the incarceration - and also after incarceration to avoid recidivism. The experiences of families during a father's incarceration: Descriptive findings from the baseline data collection for the multi-site study on incarceration, parenting and partnering. [Extracted from the article]

This new collection, edited by Warren, offers an exploration of fatherhood through prose and poetry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A review of the book "The Lights: Poems," by Ben Lerner, is presented.

The authors examine areas of food resistance on the part children and the food adjustment steps taken by canteen chefs and schools to help children eat the food provided. Boni describes the family food practices in relation to de Certeau's (1984) "strategies" and "tactics". This is a fascinating publication that explores children's lives and food practices from a variety of cross-disciplinary perspectives. [Extracted from the article]