Tell me about your bad guys : fathering in anxious times / Michael Dowdy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dowdy, Michael, author.

Series:

American lives.

American Lives Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fatherhood.

Fathers.

Father and child.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2025]

Summary:

Combining lyric essay, memoir, and cultural critique, Michael Dowdy's meditations on fathering take his daughter's unruly questions as a guide, seeking a language to match his desire to be an antipatriarchal father.

Contents:

Cover Page

American Lives

Copyright Page

Contents

Illustrations

Preface: Dad Selfies

Part 1

In the Forginning

South Padre Island

[Precario]

The Night after Newtown

Living's Tons

[Stuffy]

Part 2

My Nouns

My Bitter Beer Face

[Ark]

Grrrl Dad

[Monopoly]

Receiver of Wreck

Part 3

Mountainsickness

[Back Seat]

Rappalachia 911

[Port]

Tiny Towns

[Cliché]

Part 4

[Escaped Time]

Matilda the Trail Fairy

[Vicuña]

The Stranger's Banquet

[Marquee]

The Scope of My Vigilance

Part 5

My Commonplace Book

Swifties [Redacted]

[Shelter]

To-Go Mining

What We Take from the Anne Frank House

[Hovercraft]

Coda: Elementary Primer

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4962-4305-6

1-4962-4304-8

OCLC:

1500766163