Shifting the Center
Understanding the Contemporary Family
5th Edition
Book
Paperback/Softback
688 pages
978-1-5063-6827-6 (ISBN)
Description
Shifting the Center: Understanding the Contemporary Family 5e is a popular anthology of readings used in Sociology of Family and Marriages/Families/Intimate Relationship courses. It's editor, Susan Ferguson, brings together selections written by leading family researchers and drawn from a variety of scholarly sources, including articles from the leading family journals and excerpts from number of classic book-length studies. The table of contents follows the same scope and sequence as the leading family survey texts.
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Edition
5th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks, CA
United States
Publishing group
SAGE Publications Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 187 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-5063-6827-6 (9781506368276)
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Content
Part I. INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF FAMILIES
1. "The Family in Question: What is the Family? Is It Universal?" - Diana Gittins
2. "Feminist Rethinking from Racial-Ethnic Families" - Maxine Baca Zinn
3. "LGBTQ Families" - Nancy Mezey
4. "We Can't Build Our Social System around Marriage Anymore" - Philip N. Cohen
Part II. HISTORICAL CHANGES AND FAMILY VARIATIONS
5. "Historical Perspectives on Family Diversity" - Stephanie Coontz
6. "Fictive Kin, Paper Sons, and Compradazgo" - Bonnie Thornton Dill
7. "The Politics of Theorizing Black Families: Old Debates, New Directions" - Shirley Hill
8. "Immigrant Families and the Shifting Color Line in the United States" - Karen D. Pyke
9. "Multigenerational Punishment: Shared Experiences of Undocumented Immigration Status within Mixed-Status Families" - Laura E. Enriquez
Part III. COURTSHIP, DATING, AND POWER
10. "Gendered Sexuality in Young Adulthood: Double Binds and Flawed Options" - Laura Hamilton and Elizabeth A. Armstrong
11. ""We Can Write the Scripts Ourselves": Queer Challenges to Heteronormative Courtship Practices" - Ellen Lamont
12. "Arranged Marriages: What's Love Got to Do with It?" - Monisha Pasupathi
Part IV. MARRIAGE, COHABITATION, AND PARTNERSHIP
13. "The Deinstitutionalization of Marriage" - Andrew J. Cherlin
14. "Marriage: The Good, the Bad, and the Greedy" - Naomi Gerstel and Natalia Sarkisian
15. "Marital Status and Perceived Discrimination among Transgender People" - Hui Liu and Lindsey Wilkinson
16. "Clashing Dreams: Highly Educated Overseas Brides and Low-Wage U.S. Husbands" - Hung Cam Thai
17. "Families Formed Outside of Marriage" - Judith A. Seltzer
18. "Older Adults Developing a Preference for Living Apart Together" - Jacquelyn J. Benson and Marilyn Coleman
19. "Intimacy and Emotion Work in Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Relationships" - Deb Umberson, Beth Thomer, and Amy C. Lodge
Part V. MOTHERHOOD AND FATHERHOOD
20. "Shifting the Center: Race, Class, and Feminist Theorizing about Motherhood" - Patricia Hill Collins
21. "Mothering From a Distance: Emotions, Gender, and Intergenerational Relations in Filipino Transnational Families" - Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
22. "Facets of Agency in Stories of Transforming from Childless by Choice to Mother" - Julia Moore
23. "Fathering: Paradoxes, Contradictions, and Dilemmas" - Scott Coltrane
24. "Diversity and Meaning in the Study of Black Fatherhood: Toward a New Paradigm" - Maria S. Johnson and Alford A. Young, Jr.
25. "The Father as an Idea" - Rosanna Hertz
Part VI. PARENTS AND PARENTING, CHILDREN AND CHILDREARING
26. "Not-so-Nuclear Families: Class, Gender, and Networks of Care" - Karen V. Hansen
27. "Emotional Life on the Market Frontier" - Arlie Hochschild
28. "Out of Sorts: Adoption and (Un)Desirable Children" - Katherin M. Flower Kim
29. "The Gendered Buffet: LGBTQ Parents Resisting Heternormativity" - Kate Henley Averett
30. "Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families" - Annette Lareau
31. "Consumption as Care and Belonging: Economies of Dignity in Children's Daily Lives" - Allison J. Pugh
Part VII. INTERGENERATIONAL FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
32. "Intergenerational Relationships in Late Life: The Elderly, Their Adult Children, and Their Grandchildren" - Roberta L. Coles
33. "When the Nest Doesn't Empty" - Kathleen S. Newman
34. "My Mother's Hip: Lessons from the World of Eldercare" - Luisa Margolies
Part VIII. DIVORCE, REMARRIAGE, AND BLENDED FAMILIES
35. "Remarriage and Stepfamilies: Strategic Sites for Family Scholarship in the 21st Century" - Megan M. Sweeney
36. "The Stuff at Mom's House and the Stuff at Dad's House: The Material Consumption of Divorce for Adolescents" - Caitlyn Collins and Michelle Janning
37. "The Effects of Religion on Remarriage" - Susannah M. Brown and Jeremy Porter
38. "Boundary Ambiguity in Gay Stepfamilies: Perspectives of Gay Biological Fathers and Their Same- Sex Partners" - David A. Jenkins
Part IX. FAMILIES AND VIOLENCE
39. "Gender, Diversity, and Violence: Extending the Feminist Framework" - Kersti A. Yllö
40. "Lifting the Veil of Secrecy: Domestic Violence Against South Asian Women in the United States" - Staya P. Krishnan and Malahat Baig-Amin et al.
41. "LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence: Making the Invisible Visible" - Adam M. Messinger
42. "Abuse Across the Life Course: Elder Abuse" - Angela Hattery and Earl Smith
Part X. FAMILIES, WORK, AND CAREWORK
43. "There's No Such Thing as Having It All: Gender, Work, and Care in an Age of Insecurity" - Kathleen Gerson
44. "Fast Track Women and the "Choice" to Stay Home" - Pamela Stone and Meg Lovejoy
45. "Negotiating Work and Parenting over the Life Course: Mexican Family Dynamics in a Binational Context" - Joanna Dreby
46. "Great Expectations? Working- and Middle-Class Cohabitors Expected and Actual Divisions of Housework" - Amanda J. Miller and Daniel L. Carlson
47. "No Place Like Home: The Division of Domestic Labor in Lesbigay Families" - Christopher Carrington
48. "Creating a Caring Society" - Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Part XI. FAMILIES AND POVERTY
49. "Severe Deprivation in America: An Introduction" - Matthew Desmond
50. "Understanding the Dynamics of $2-a-Day Poverty Kathryn Edin, and in the United States" - H. Luke Shaefer, Kathryn Edin, and Elizabeth Talbert
51. "Morality and Work-Family Conflict in the Lives of Poor and Low-Income Women" - Judith Hennesey
52. "Unmarried with Children" - Kathyrn Edin and Maria Kefalas
Chapter 3: LGBTQ Families - Nancy Mezey
1. "The Family in Question: What is the Family? Is It Universal?" - Diana Gittins
2. "Feminist Rethinking from Racial-Ethnic Families" - Maxine Baca Zinn
3. "LGBTQ Families" - Nancy Mezey
4. "We Can't Build Our Social System around Marriage Anymore" - Philip N. Cohen
Part II. HISTORICAL CHANGES AND FAMILY VARIATIONS
5. "Historical Perspectives on Family Diversity" - Stephanie Coontz
6. "Fictive Kin, Paper Sons, and Compradazgo" - Bonnie Thornton Dill
7. "The Politics of Theorizing Black Families: Old Debates, New Directions" - Shirley Hill
8. "Immigrant Families and the Shifting Color Line in the United States" - Karen D. Pyke
9. "Multigenerational Punishment: Shared Experiences of Undocumented Immigration Status within Mixed-Status Families" - Laura E. Enriquez
Part III. COURTSHIP, DATING, AND POWER
10. "Gendered Sexuality in Young Adulthood: Double Binds and Flawed Options" - Laura Hamilton and Elizabeth A. Armstrong
11. ""We Can Write the Scripts Ourselves": Queer Challenges to Heteronormative Courtship Practices" - Ellen Lamont
12. "Arranged Marriages: What's Love Got to Do with It?" - Monisha Pasupathi
Part IV. MARRIAGE, COHABITATION, AND PARTNERSHIP
13. "The Deinstitutionalization of Marriage" - Andrew J. Cherlin
14. "Marriage: The Good, the Bad, and the Greedy" - Naomi Gerstel and Natalia Sarkisian
15. "Marital Status and Perceived Discrimination among Transgender People" - Hui Liu and Lindsey Wilkinson
16. "Clashing Dreams: Highly Educated Overseas Brides and Low-Wage U.S. Husbands" - Hung Cam Thai
17. "Families Formed Outside of Marriage" - Judith A. Seltzer
18. "Older Adults Developing a Preference for Living Apart Together" - Jacquelyn J. Benson and Marilyn Coleman
19. "Intimacy and Emotion Work in Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Relationships" - Deb Umberson, Beth Thomer, and Amy C. Lodge
Part V. MOTHERHOOD AND FATHERHOOD
20. "Shifting the Center: Race, Class, and Feminist Theorizing about Motherhood" - Patricia Hill Collins
21. "Mothering From a Distance: Emotions, Gender, and Intergenerational Relations in Filipino Transnational Families" - Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
22. "Facets of Agency in Stories of Transforming from Childless by Choice to Mother" - Julia Moore
23. "Fathering: Paradoxes, Contradictions, and Dilemmas" - Scott Coltrane
24. "Diversity and Meaning in the Study of Black Fatherhood: Toward a New Paradigm" - Maria S. Johnson and Alford A. Young, Jr.
25. "The Father as an Idea" - Rosanna Hertz
Part VI. PARENTS AND PARENTING, CHILDREN AND CHILDREARING
26. "Not-so-Nuclear Families: Class, Gender, and Networks of Care" - Karen V. Hansen
27. "Emotional Life on the Market Frontier" - Arlie Hochschild
28. "Out of Sorts: Adoption and (Un)Desirable Children" - Katherin M. Flower Kim
29. "The Gendered Buffet: LGBTQ Parents Resisting Heternormativity" - Kate Henley Averett
30. "Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families" - Annette Lareau
31. "Consumption as Care and Belonging: Economies of Dignity in Children's Daily Lives" - Allison J. Pugh
Part VII. INTERGENERATIONAL FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
32. "Intergenerational Relationships in Late Life: The Elderly, Their Adult Children, and Their Grandchildren" - Roberta L. Coles
33. "When the Nest Doesn't Empty" - Kathleen S. Newman
34. "My Mother's Hip: Lessons from the World of Eldercare" - Luisa Margolies
Part VIII. DIVORCE, REMARRIAGE, AND BLENDED FAMILIES
35. "Remarriage and Stepfamilies: Strategic Sites for Family Scholarship in the 21st Century" - Megan M. Sweeney
36. "The Stuff at Mom's House and the Stuff at Dad's House: The Material Consumption of Divorce for Adolescents" - Caitlyn Collins and Michelle Janning
37. "The Effects of Religion on Remarriage" - Susannah M. Brown and Jeremy Porter
38. "Boundary Ambiguity in Gay Stepfamilies: Perspectives of Gay Biological Fathers and Their Same- Sex Partners" - David A. Jenkins
Part IX. FAMILIES AND VIOLENCE
39. "Gender, Diversity, and Violence: Extending the Feminist Framework" - Kersti A. Yllö
40. "Lifting the Veil of Secrecy: Domestic Violence Against South Asian Women in the United States" - Staya P. Krishnan and Malahat Baig-Amin et al.
41. "LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence: Making the Invisible Visible" - Adam M. Messinger
42. "Abuse Across the Life Course: Elder Abuse" - Angela Hattery and Earl Smith
Part X. FAMILIES, WORK, AND CAREWORK
43. "There's No Such Thing as Having It All: Gender, Work, and Care in an Age of Insecurity" - Kathleen Gerson
44. "Fast Track Women and the "Choice" to Stay Home" - Pamela Stone and Meg Lovejoy
45. "Negotiating Work and Parenting over the Life Course: Mexican Family Dynamics in a Binational Context" - Joanna Dreby
46. "Great Expectations? Working- and Middle-Class Cohabitors Expected and Actual Divisions of Housework" - Amanda J. Miller and Daniel L. Carlson
47. "No Place Like Home: The Division of Domestic Labor in Lesbigay Families" - Christopher Carrington
48. "Creating a Caring Society" - Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Part XI. FAMILIES AND POVERTY
49. "Severe Deprivation in America: An Introduction" - Matthew Desmond
50. "Understanding the Dynamics of $2-a-Day Poverty Kathryn Edin, and in the United States" - H. Luke Shaefer, Kathryn Edin, and Elizabeth Talbert
51. "Morality and Work-Family Conflict in the Lives of Poor and Low-Income Women" - Judith Hennesey
52. "Unmarried with Children" - Kathyrn Edin and Maria Kefalas
Chapter 3: LGBTQ Families - Nancy Mezey