MixedDaily Mail (UK)I’m not sure Sedgewick’s book is really about fatherhood at all. It seems to me more a history of patriarchy, although maybe that’s not a word that sells books these days. It’s about how men came to be in charge, and how they came to stay in charge ... Sedgewick is, happily, an indefatigable researcher, who has unearthed many stories about these often terrible men, some of whose connections with fatherhood were at best peripheral.
