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Family in Transition

by: Skolnick, Arlene S.; Skolnick, Jerome H.

Family in Transition

by: Skolnick, Arlene S.; Skolnick, Jerome H.

ISBN 13:
9780205482658
ISBN 10:
0205482651
Edition: 14th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2009
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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Summary

This bestselling reader on families and intimate relationships identifies the most current trends, places them in historical context, and balances cutting-edge scholarship with perennial favorites.

Preface

Introduction

(10)

PART ONE The Changing Family

(94)

Families Past and Present

(45)

The Theoretical Importance of the Family

(12)

William J. Goode

The Global Revolution in Family and Personal Life

(6)

Anthony Giddens

The Life Course Revolution

(8)

Arlene Skolnick

Changes in the Demographics of Families over the Course of American History

(19)

Donald J. Hernandez

Public Debates and Private Lives

(46)

The Mommy Wars: Ambivalence, Ideological Work, and the Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood

(17)

Sharon Hays

Decline of the Family: Conservative, Liberal, and Feminist Views

(19)

Janet Z. Giele

Why Do Gays Want to Marry?

(10)

George Chauncey

PART TWO Sex and Gender

105

(136)

Changing Gender Roles

109

(20)

Destined for Equality

109

(8)

Robert M. Jackson

Children of the Gender Revolution: Some Theoretical Questions and Findings from the Field

117

(12)

Kathleen Gerson

Sexuality and Society

129

(22)

Raging Hormones, Regulated Love: Adolescent Sexuality in the United States and the Netherlands

129

(5)

Amy T. Schalet

Sexual Revolution(s)

134

(17)

Beth Bailey

Courtship and Marriage

151

(37)

The Decline of the Date and the Rise of the College Hook Up

151

(11)

Paula England

Reuben J. Thomas

Grounds for Marriage: How Relationships Succeed or Fail

162

(10)

Arlene Skolnick

Cohabitation

172

(10)

Lynne M. Casper

Suzanne M. Bianchi

Can Marriage Be Saved?

182

(6)

Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.

Divorce and Remarriage

188

(53)

Divorce Culture: A Quest for Relational Equality in Marriage

188

(12)

Karla B. Hackstaff

Children's Adjustment Following Divorce: Risk and Resilience Perspectives

200

(23)

Joan B. Kelly

Robert E. Emery

The Modern American Stepfamily: Problems and Possibilities

223

(18)

Mary Ann Mason

PART THREE Parents and Children

241

(84)

Parenthood

244

(47)

New Families: Modern Couples as New Pioneers

244

(20)

Philip Cowan

Carolyn Pape Cowan

Caring for Our Young: Child Care in Europe and the United States

264

(8)

Dan Clawson

Naomi Gerstel

Who Are Our Children? Adoption, Past and Present

272

(10)

Lawrence Friedman

The Four Facets of Fatherhood

282

(9)

Nicholas Townsend

Childhood

291

(34)

Beyond Sentimentality: American Childhood as a Social and Cultural Construct

291

(13)

Steven Mintz

What Children Think about Their Working Parents

304

(11)

Ellen Galinsky

How Families Still Matter: A Longitudinal Study of Youth in Two Generations

315

(10)

Vern L. Bengston

Timothy J. Biblarz

Robert E. L. Roberts

PART FOUR Families in Society

325

(187)

Work and Family Life

329

(31)

Family Values against the Odds

329

(14)

Katherine S. Newman

The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home

343

(7)

Arlie Hochschild

Anne Machung

The Work-Home Crunch

350

(10)

Kathleen Gerson

Jerry A. Jacobs

Family and the Economy

360

(38)

Families on the Fault Line

360

(17)

Lillian B. Rubin

The Economy That Never Sleeps

377

(7)

Harriet B. Presser

Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke

384

(14)

Elizabeth Warren

Amelia Warren Tyagi

Dimensions of Diversity

398

(93)

Diversity within African American Families

398

(24)

Ronald L. Taylor

Diversity within Latino Families: New Lessons for Family Social Science

422

(26)

Maxine Baca Zinn

Barbara Wells

Gay and Lesbian Families: Queer Like Us

448

(21)

Judith Stacey

``The Normal American Family'' as an Interpretive Structure of Family Life among Grown Children of Korean and Vietnamese Immigrants

469

(22)

Karen Pyke

Trouble in the Family

491

(21)

Prisoners' Families and Children

491

(14)

Jeremy Travis

Unmarried with Children

505

(7)

Kathryn Edin

Maria Kefalas

Issues in the Definition of Family Violence and Abuse

512

Denise A. Hines

Kathleen Malley-Morrison

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