Family in Transition

*New to this edition



PART ONE--THE CHANGING FAMILY



Families Past and Present

1. William J. Goode / "The Theoretical Importance of the Family"

2. Anthony Giddens, "The Global Revolution in Family and Personal Life"

3. Arlene Skolnick / "The Life Course Revolution"

4. Donald J. Hernandez / "Changes in the Demographics of Families Over the Course of American History" *



Public Debates and Private Lives

5. Sharon Hays / "The Mommy Wars: Ambivalence, Ideological Work, and the Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood"

6. Janet Z. Giele / "Decline of the Family: Conservative, Liberal, and Feminist Views"

7. George Chauncey / "Why Do Gays Want to Marry?" *



PART TWO--SEX AND GENDER



Changing Gender Roles

8. Robert M. Jackson / "Destined for Equality"

9. Kathleen Gerson / "Children of the Gender Revolution: Some Theoretical Questions and Findings from the Field"



Sexuality and Society

10. Amy T. Schalet / "Raging Hormones, Regulated Love: Adolescent Sexuality in the United States and the Netherlands"

11. Beth Bailey / "Sexual Revolution(s)"



Courtship and Marriage

12. Paula England / "The Decline of Dating and the Rise of the Hook Up" *

13. Arlene Skolnick / "Grounds for Marriage: How Relationships Succeed or Fail"

14. Lynne M. Casper and Suzanne M. Bianchi / "Cohabitation"

15. Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. / "The Future of Marriage"



Divorce and Remarriage

16. Karla B. Hackstaff / "Divorce Culture: A Quest for Relational Equality in Marriage"

17. Joan B. Kelly and Robert E. Emery / "Children's Adjustment Following Divorce: Risk and Resilience Perspectives"

18. Mary Ann Mason / "The Modern American Stepfamily: Problems and Possibilities"



PART THREE--PARENTS AND CHILDREN



Parenthood

19. Philip Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan / "New Families: Modern Couples as New Pioneers"

20. Dan Clawson and Naomi Gerstel / "Caring for Our Young: Child Care in Europe and the United States"

21. Lawrence Friedman / "Who Are Our Children: Adoption Past and Present" *

22. Nicholas Townsend / "The Four Facets of Fatherhood"



Childhood

23. Steven Mintz / "Beyond Sentimentality: American Childhood as a Social and Cultural Construct"

24. Ellen Galinsky / "What Children Think about Their Working Parents"

25. Vern L. Bengston, Timothy J. Biblarz, and Robert E. L. Roberts / "How Families Still Matter: A Longitudinal Study of Youth in Two Generations"



PART FOUR--FAMILIES IN SOCIETY



Work and Family

26. Katherine S. Newman / "Family Values against the Odds"

27. Arlie Hochschild, with Anne Machung / "The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home"

28. Jerry A. Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson / "The Work-Home Crunch"



Family and the Economy

29. Lillian B. Rubin / "Families on the Fault Line"

30. Harriet B. Presser / "The Economy That Never Sleeps" *

31. Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi / Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke" *



Dimensions of Diversity

32. Ronald L. Taylor / "Diversity within African American Families"

33. Maxine Baca Zinn and Barbara Wells / "Diversity within Latino Families: New Lessons for Family Social Science"

34. Judith Stacey / "Gay and Lesbian Families: Queer Like Us" *

35. Karen Pyke / "`The Normal American Family' as an Interpretive Structure of Family Life among Grown Children of Korean and Vietnamese Immigrants"



12 Trouble in the Family

36. Jeremy Travis / "Prisoners' Families and Children" *

37. Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas / "Unmarried with Children"

38. Denise A. Hines and Kathleen Malley-Morrison / "Issues in the Definition of Family Violence and Abuse" *