Families in the U.S.
Will be published approx. on 9. March 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
888 pages
978-1-56639-590-8 (ISBN)
Description
This engaging collection of essays attempts to do justice to the complexity of contemporary families and to situate them in their economic, political, and cultural contexts. The editors introduce this wide-ranging collection with a provocative analytical introduction, setting the stage with a recognition that families may look very different even to those inside the same family. These cutting-edge scholars explore the ways in which family life is gendered and reflect on the work of maintaining family and kin relationships, especially as social and family power structures change over time. The book includes a guide to topics (from Adoption and African American Families to Work-Family Tension and Working-Class Families) that should prove useful to teachers, students, and researchers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia PA
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 253 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 54 mm
Weight
1560 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56639-590-8 (9781566395908)
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Person
Karen V. Hansen, Associate Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University, is the author of A Very Social Time: Crafting Community in Antebellum New England, and the co-editor (with Ilene J. Philipson) of Women, Class, and the Feminist Imagination: A Socialist-Feminist Reader (Temple, 1990). Anita Ilta Garey, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire, is the author of Weaving Work and Family: Working Mothers and the Construction of Meaning (forthcoming, Temple).
Content
CONTENTS Preface Introduction: Analyzing Families with a Feminist Sociological Imagination Organization of the Book Guide to Topics I. Family Composition A. Defining and Analyzing Families 1. Martha Minow, Redefining Families: Who's In and Who's Out? 2. Barbara Katz Rothman, Motherhood Under Patriarchy 3. Maxine Baca Zinn, Family, Feminism, and Race in America 4. Katarina Wegar, Adoption and Kinship B. Family Structure and Accordion Households 5. Nazli Kibria, Household Structure and Family Ideologies: The Case of Vietnamese Refugees 6. Peter Uhlenberg, Mortality Decline in the Twentieth Century and Supply of Kin over the Life Course 7. Anita Ilta Garey, Fertility on the Frontier: Women, Contraception, and Community 8. Niara Sudarkasa, Interpreting African Heritage in Afro-American Family Organization II. Families Within Society A. Families and the Economy 9. Juliet B. Schor, Time Squeeze: The Extra Month of Work 10. John D'Emilio, Capitalism and Gay Identity 11. Martha May, Bread Before Roses: American Workingmen, Labor Unions, and the Family Wage 12. Julianne Malveaux, Race, Poverty, and Women's Aging 13. Marjorie L. DeVault, Affluence and Poverty in Feeding the Family 14. Marua I. Toro-Morn, Gender, Class, Family, and Migration: Puerto Rican Women in Chicago 15. Donald J. Hernandez, Children's Changing Access to Resources: A Historical Perspective B. Families and Community 16. Michele Barrett and Mary McIntosh, The Anti-Social Family 17. Barry Wellman, The Place of Kinfolk in Personal Community Networks 18. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Housewife and Gadder: Themes of Self-Sufficiency and Community in Eighteenth-Century New England 19. Mary Pardo, Mexican American Women Grassroots Community Activists: Mothers of East Los Angeles III. Webs of Family Relationships A. Mothering, Motherhood, and Mothers 20. Nancy J. Chodorow, Why Women Mother 21. Denise A. Segura and Jennifer L. Pierce, Chicana/o Family Structure and Gender Personality: Chodorow, Familism, and Psychoanalytic Sociology Revisited 22. Suzanne C. Carothers, Catching Sense: Learning from Our Mothers to Be Black and Female 23. Linda J. Holtzman, Jewish Lesbian Parenting 24. Judith K. Witherow, Native American Mother 25. Claire Reinelt and Mindy Fried, "I Am This Child's Mother": A Feminist Perspective on Mothering with a Disability B. Fathering, Fatherhood, and Fathers 26. Joseph H. Pleck, American Fathering in Historical Perspective 27. Nicholas W. Townsend, Fathers and Sons: Men's Experiences and the Reproduction of Fatherhood 28. Ralph LaRossa, The Culture and Conduct of Fatherhood 29. Terry Arendell, "Best Case Scenarios": Fathers, Children, and Divorce C. Kin Networks 30. Carol B. Stack and Linda M. Burton, Kinscripts 31. Micaela di Leonardo, The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship 32. Bonnie Thornton Dill, Fictive Kin, Paper Sons, and Compadrazgo: Women of Color and the Struggle for Family Survival D. On Marriage and Divorce 33. Jessie Bernard, The Two Marriages 34. Karla B. Hackstaff, Wives' Marital Work in a Culture of Divorce 35. Thomas B. Stoddard, Why Gay People Should Seek the Right to Marry 36. Paula L. Ettelbrick, Since When Is Marriage a Path to Liberation? 37. Phyllis Burke, Love Demands Everything 38. Nathalie Friedman, Divorced Parents and the Jewish Community IV. Complexities and Contradictions of Family Bonds A. Caregiving 39. Arlie Russell Hochschild, Ideals of Care: Traditional, Postmodern, Cold-Modern, and Warm-Modern 40. Nina Glick Schiller, The Invisible Women: Caregiving and AIDS 41. Emily K. Abel, The Ambiguities of Social Support: Adult Daughters Caring for Frail Elderly Parents 42. Karen V. Hansen, Masculinity, Caregiving, and Men's Friendship in Antebellum New England 43. bell hooks, Revolutionary Parenting 44. Lynet Uttal, Racial Safety and Cultural Maintenance: The Child Care Concerns of Employed Mothers of Color B. Violence, Power, and Families 45. Kersti A. Yllo, Through a Feminist Lens: Gender, Power, and Violence 46. James Ptacek, Why Do Men Batter Their Wives? 47. Bonnie Zimmer, Felicia: Working with a Teen Mother in an Abusive Relationship 48. Murray A. Straus, Ten Myths That Perpetuate Corporal Punishment 49. John Demos, Child Abuse in Context: An Historian's Perspective V. Labor and Family Intersections A. Mediating Work and Family 50. Jacqueline Jones, "My Mother Was Much of a Woman": Slavery 51. Anita Ilta Garey, Constructing Motherhood on the Night Shift: "Working Mothers" as "Stay-at-Home Moms" 52. Denise A. Segura, Working at Motherhood: Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Mothers and Employment 53. Evelyn Nakano Glenn, The Dialectics of Wage Work: Japanese-American Women and Domestic Service, 1905-1940 54. Rosanna Hertz, The Parenting Approach to the Work-Family Dilemma B. Household Division of Labor 55. Arlie Russell Hochschild with Anne Machung, The Working Wife as Urbanizing Peasant 56. Scott Coltrane, Household Labor and the Routine Production of Gender 57. Frances K. Goldscheider and Linda J. Waite, Children's Share in Household Tasks 58. Grey Osterud, "She Helped Me Hay It as Good as a Man": Relations Among Women and Men in an Agricultural Community VI. Social Policy and Family Values 59. Nancy Folbre, Children as Public Goods 60. Sonya Michel, The Politics of Child Care in America's Public/Private Welfare State 61. Anne Finger, Claiming All of Our Bodies: Reproductive Rights and Disability 62. Judith Stacey, The Right Family Values Contributors