Nine incisive essays (one sample title: "Dada-ism in the 1990s: getting past baby talk about fatherlessness") offer divergent views on the psychological, social, economic, and political stakes in the debate over the role of fathers and their increasing absence in American family life, father myths in relation to single mothers, and fatherhood and its discontents. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.