Families in the U.S.

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 Tensions and Working-Class Families) that should prove useful to teachers, students, and researchers.

List of contents

Introduction I. Family Composition A. Defining and Analyzing Families 1. Redefining Families: Who's In and Who's Out Martha Minow 2. Motherhood Under Patriarchy Barbara Katz Rothman 3. Family, Feminism, and Race in America Maxine Baca Zinn 4. Adoption and Kinship Katarina Wegar B. Family Structure and Accordion Households 5. Household Structure and Family Ideologies: The Case of Vietnamese Refugees Nazli Kibria 6. Mortality Decline in the Twentieth Century and Supply of Kin over the Life Course Peter Uhlenberg 7. Fertility on the Frontier: Women, Contraception, and Community Anita Ilta Garey 8. Interpreting the African Heritage in Afro-American Family Organization Niara Sudarkasa II. Families Within Society A. Families and the Economy 9. Time Squeeze: The Extra Month of Work Juliet B. Schor 10. Capitalism and Gay Identity John D'Emilio 11. Bread Before Roses: American Workingmen, Labor Unions, and the Family Wage Martha May 12. Race, Poverty, and Women's Aging Julianne Malveaux 13. Affluence and Poverty in Feeding the Family Marjorie L. DeVault 14. Gender, Class, Family, and Migration: Puerto Rican Women in Chicago Maura I. Toro-Morn 15. Children's Changing Access to Resources: A Historical Perspective Donald J. Hernandez B. Families and Community 16. The Anti-Social Family Michele Barrett and Mary McIntosh 17. The Place of Kinfolk in Personal Community Networks Barry Wellman 18. Housewife and Gadder: Themes of Self-Sufficiency and Community in Eighteenth-Century New England Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 19. Mexican American Women Grassroots Community Activists: Mothers of East Los Angeles Mary Pardo III. Webs of Family Relationships A. Mothering, Motherhood, and Mothers 20. Why Women Mother Nancy J. Chodorow 21. Chicana/o Family Structure and Gender Personality: Chodorow, Familism, and Psychoanalytic Sociology Revisited Denise A. Segura and Jennifer L. Pierce 22. Catching Sense: Learning from Our Mothers to Be Black and Female Suzanne C. Carothers 23. Jewish Lesbian Parenting Linda J. Holtzman 24. Native-American Mother Judith K. Witherow 25. 'I Am This Child's Mother': A Feminist Perspective on Mothering with a Disability Claire Reinelt and Mindy Fried B. Fathering, Fatherhood, and Fathers 26. American Fathering in Historical Perspective Joseph H. Pleck 27. Fathers and Sons: Men's Experience and the Reproduction of Fatherhood Nicholas W. Townsend 28. The Culture and Conduct of Fatherhood Ralph LaRossa 29. 'Best Case Scenarios': Fathers, Children, and Divorce Terry Arendell C. Kin Networks 30. Kinscripts Carol B. Stack and Linda M. Burton 31. The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship Micaela di Leonardo 32. Fictive Kin, Paper Sons, Compadrazgo: Women of Color and the Struggle for Family Survival Bonnie Thornton Dill D. On Marriage and Divorce 33. The Two Marriages Jessie Bernard 34. Wives' Marital Work in a Culture of Divorce Karla B. Hackstaff 35. Why Gay People Should Seek the Right to Marry Thomas B. Stoddard 36. Since When Is Marriage a Path to Liberation? Paula L. Ettelbrick 37. Love Demands Everything Phyllis Burke 38. Divorced Parents and the Jewish Community Nathalie Friedman IV. Complexities and Contradictions of Family Bonds A. Caregiving 39. Ideals of Care: Traditional, Postmodern, Cold-Modern, and Warm-Modern Arlie Russell Hochschild 40. The Invisible Women: Caregiving and AIDS Nina Glick Schiller 41. The Ambiguities of Social Support: Adult Daughters Caring for Frail Elderly Parents 42. Karen V. Emily K. Abel Hansen, Masculinity, Caregiving, and Men's Friendship in Antebellum New England 43. Revolutionary Parenting bell hooks 44. Racial Safety and Cultural Maintenance: The Child Care Concerns of Employed Mothers of Color Lynet Uttal B. Violence, Power, and Families 45. Through a Feminist Lens: Gender, Power, and Violence Kersti A. Yllo 46. Why Do Men Batter Their Wives? James Ptacek 47. Felicia: Working with a Teen Mother in an Abusive Relationship Bonnie Zimmer 48. Ten Myths That Perpetuate Corporal Punishment Murray A. Straus 49. Child Abuse in Context: An Historian's Perspective John Demos V. Labor and Family Intersections A. Mediating Work and Family 50. 'My Mother Was Much of a Woman': Slavery Jacqueline Jones 51. Constructing Motherhood on the Night Shift: 'Working Mothers' as 'Stay-at-Home Moms' Anita Ilta Garey 52. Working at Motherhood: Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Mothers and Employment Denise A. Segura 53. The Dialectics of Wage Work: Japanese-American Women and Domestic Service, 1905-1940 Evelyn Nakano Glenn 54. The Parenting Approach to the Work-Family Dilemma Rosanna Hertz B. Household Division of Labor 55. The Working Wife as Urbanizing Peasant Arlie Russell Hochschild and Anne Machung 56. Household Labor and the Routine Production of Gender Scott Coltrane 57. Children's Share in Household Tasks Frances K. Goldscheider and Linda J. Waite 58. 'She Helped Me Hay It as Good as a Man': Relations Among Women and Men in an Agricultural Community Grey Osterud VI. Social Policy and Family Values 59. Children as Public Goods Nancy Folbre 60. The Politics of Child Care in America's Public/Private Welfare State Sonya Michel 61. Claiming All of Our Bodies: Reproductive Rights and Disability Anne Finger 62. The Right Family Values Judith Stacey

Summary

Attempts to do justice to the complexity of contemporary families and to situate them in their economic, political, and cultural contexts. This book explores the ways in which family life is gendered and reflects on the work of maintaining family and kin relationships, especially as social and family power structures change over time.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Hansen, Karen V. Hansen
• Assisted by: Anita Ilta Garey (Editor), Karen V. Hansen (Editor), Ronnie J. Steinberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.03.1998
• EAN: 9781566395908
• ISBN: 978-1-56639-590-8
• No. of pages: 888
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 53 mm
• Weight: 1560 g
• Series: Women in the Political Economy; Women in the Political Economy
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories