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Changing American Families

by: Aulette, Judith R.

Changing American Families

by: Aulette, Judith R.

ISBN 13:
9780205484461
ISBN 10:
0205484468
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2007
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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Summary

Focusing on insights from feminist researchers and the role of gender in family life, this text explores both the structural features of society that shape families and the everyday personal experiences of individual family members--as well as the interplay between the two.

Preface

xiii

How to Study Families in the Twenty-first Century

(23)

Analyzing Social Life

(1)

The Sociological Imagination: Bridging the Gap between Individuals and Society

(3)

Micro- and Macrolevels of Analysis

(1)

Society Is a Human Invention

(2)

Families as a Political Issue

(4)

Families: Hot Issue in the United States

(2)

The Personal Is Political

(2)

Recent History of the Sociology of Family

(11)

Women's Liberation Movement

(1)

Revisioning Families

(1)

Challenging the Myth of the Monolithic Family

(1)

Appreciating Diversity

(1)

The Monolithic Family and the Denial of Historical Change

(1)

Observing That Families Are the Sites of Many Different Social Activities

(1)

Acknowledging Differences within Families by Gender and Age

(1)

Asking Whether Families Are Separate from the Rest of Society

(2)

Creating Families That Provide Both Love and Individual Freedom

(1)

Asserting the Need to Change Families So They Can Better Serve the Needs of Women, Men, and Children

(1)

The Question of Theory

(3)

A History of U.S. Families with a Focus on Euro-Americans

(28)

Studying the Social History of Families

(1)

Stages in the History of Euro-American Families

(22)

The Godly Family

(3)

Iroquois Families

(1)

The Modern Family, Stage I: The Democratic Family

(1)

The Split between Family and Work among Euro-Americans

(2)

The Cult of True Womanhood

(1)

The Ideal of Real Womanhood

(1)

Capitalist Industrialization and the Working-Class Family

(1)

The Problem of the Family Wage

(1)

Pioneer Families: Leaving Friends, Facing Hardship

(1)

The Modern Family, Stage II: The Companionate Family

(1)

The Twentieth Century and the History of Childhood

(1)

Families during the Great Depression

(1)

World War II and Families

(1)

World War II and Marriage

(1)

World War II and Divorce

(2)

Japanese American Families during the War

(1)

The Fifties

(3)

Periodicizing

(1)

The First-Wave Women's Movement

(1)

The Micro-Macro Connection

(2)

A History of U.S. Families with a Focus on African American

(28)

Diversity in American Families

(2)

Four Periods in African American History

(16)

Slavery

(2)

Family Life under Slavery

(2)

Family Organization and Black Women's Role in a Community of Slaves

(3)

Comparing White Middle-Class Women to African American Women in the Nineteenth Century

(1)

Reproduction

(1)

Sharecropping

(1)

Who Shall Control Women's and Children's Labor?

(1)

Gender Equality and Changes in Families under Sharecropping

(3)

Industrialization

(2)

African American Families in the Struggle for Equality

(2)

Latino American Family History

(4)

Split Households among Chicanos and Chinese Americans

(1)

Chicano Families

(1)

Chinese American Families

(2)

Salt of the Earth

(1)

Structuration Theory and the Importance of Agency

(1)

The Micro-Macro Connection

(2)

Families and the Economic System

(25)

The Critical Link between Families and the Economy

(1)

The Contemporary Economic Scene of the United States: The Great U-turn

(13)

Unemployment

(1)

Economic Decline and Poverty

(2)

More Workers per Family

(1)

Increased Debt and Decreased Savings

(1)

Immigration

(1)

Housing

(2)

Growing Homelessness

(1)

The Rich Get Richer

(1)

Economic Decline and U.S. Families

(1)

Homelessness

(1)

Shelters: An Inadequate Solution

(1)

Blue-Collar Layoffs

(2)

Downward Mobility in the Middle Class

(1)

Responding to Economic Crisis

(3)

Social Victims or Social Critics?

(1)

Altering the Social Context

(1)

Campaign for a Living Wage

(1)

What Is Behind the Great U-turn?

(4)

The First Revolution

(1)

The Second Revolution

(1)

Postindustrial Society: A Third Revolution?

(3)

The Micro-Macro Connection

102

(3)

Families and the Organization of Race, Class, and Gender

105

(30)

Systems of Stratification

106

(8)

What Is Social Class?

107

(1)

Race Ethnicity

108

(4)

Immigration

112

(1)

Gender

113

(1)

Social Class, Race Ethnicity, and Gender and Family Life

114

(5)

Upper-Class Families: Gatekeepers

115

(1)

Middle-Class Families

116

(1)

Geographic Mobility

117

(1)

The Black Middle Class

118

(1)

Working-Class White Families

119

(1)

Working-Class African American Families: The Moynihan Report and Its Historical Context

120

(7)

The Flats

122

(1)

Swapping

122

(1)

Bloodmothers and Other Mothers

123

(1)

Household and Family

123

(1)

Extended Network Families in Racial Ethnic Communities

123

(1)

Women's Domestic Authority

124

(1)

Immigrant Families

124

(1)

Mexican Americans

125

(2)

Vietnamese Immigrant Families

127

(1)

What Is a Family?

127

(6)

Renewed Interest in Poor Families

128

(2)

The Culture of Poverty

130

(1)

Social Structural Model

131

(1)

Do Families Contain the Seeds of Resistance?

131

(1)

The Mothers of East Los Angeles

132

(1)

The Micro-Macro Connection

133

(2)

Work and Family

135

(28)

Myth of Separate Spheres

136

(18)

The Study of Work and Family Is Distorted by the Concept of Separate Spheres

137

(1)

Young Women Speak of Work and Family in Their Future

138

(2)

Women in the Paid Labor Force

140

(1)

Why Have Woman Increasingly Entered the Labor Force?

140

(1)

How Do Women Choose to Work?

141

(1)

Chicanas and a Fifth Way of Choosing to Work for Wages

142

(1)

Why Do Men Work?

143

(2)

How Does Work Influence Families?

145

(1)

Absorption

145

(1)

Time and Timing

146

(2)

A Special Case of Timing: Working Parents and Their Children

148

(1)

Teenage Workers and Their Families

149

(1)

Retirement

149

(1)

Income

150

(1)

Exchange Theory

151

(1)

A Feminist Critique of Exchange Theory

151

(2)

Worldview

153

(1)

Emotional Climate

153

(1)

The Influence of Families on Work

154

(4)

Bringing the Family to Work

154

(1)

Managing the Contradiction

155

(3)

Can Families Put Pressure for Change on Employers?

158

(3)

Flextime

158

(2)

Family Leave

160

(1)

The Micro-Macro Connection

161

(2)

Housework

163

(27)

Housework, the Invisible Occupation

164

(3)

What Is It Like to Be a Housewife?

165

(2)

Who Does the Housework?

167

(11)

How Are the Tasks Divided?

168

(1)

Social-Class Variation

168

(2)

Children's Work in Families

170

(2)

Feeding the Family

172

(1)

Socialization Goals while Feeding Children

173

(1)

The Difference between Full-Time Housewives and Part-Time Housewives

174

(2)

High Tech and Housework

176

(1)

A Recent Addition to the Tasks of the Housewife

177

(1)

Why Is Housework Divided Unequally?

178

(5)

Socializing Housewives

179

(1)

Making a Rational Choice

180

(1)

Unequal Work and the Politics of Gender

181

(2)

What Can Be Done about the Inequality in the Division of Housework?

183

(5)

Negotiating New Ways to Divide Work

183

(1)

Mothers as Gatekeepers

184

(1)

Hiring a Maid

185

(2)

Solving the Problem of Housework through Policy Change

187

(1)

The Micro-Macro Connection

188

(2)

Love and Sex

190

(29)

What Is Love?

192

(2)

Historical Development of Love

192

(1)

Postmodern Romance

193

(1)

Human Sexuality

194

(14)

Sexual Standards

195

(1)

Sex and the Law

196

(1)

Problems in Sex Research

197

(1)

Ideas about Sex

198

(2)

Premarital Sex

200

(2)

Teen Romance

202

(3)

The Marriage Bed

205

(1)

Nonmonogamous Activity

206

(1)

HIV/AIDS

207

(1)

Some Theoretical Debates on Sexuality

208

(3)

Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, and Lesbianism

208

(2)

Explaining the Focus on Sex

210

(1)

Abortion

211

(7)

Debates about Abortion

215

(3)

The Micro-Macro Connection

218

(1)

Marriage

219

(30)

Characteristics of Marriage

220

(12)

Marriage Is a Legal Contract

221

(1)

Three Periods of Marriage and Family Law

222

(1)

Marriage Is an Economic Arrangement

223

(1)

Marriage Is a Sexual Relationship

224

(1)

Marriage Means Commitment

225

(1)

Marriage Is a Political Arena

226

(2)

Power in Communication

228

(1)

Religion, Politics, and Marriage

229

(3)

Statistics on Marriage

232

(11)

Age at First Marriage

233

(1)

Racial Ethnic Differences in Age at First Marriage

233

(3)

Marrying across Racial Ethnic Lines

236

(1)

Long-Term Marriage

237

(2)

Widowhood

239

(1)

Transition to Marriage

240

(1)

Cohabitation and Domestic Partnerships

241

(2)

Singles

243

(1)

Theoretical Debate on Marriage

243

(3)

Families We Choose

246

(2)

The Micro-Macro Connection

248

(1)

Divorce and Remarriage

249

(31)

How to Measure Divorce

251

(8)

Rates of Divorce

252

(1)

What Are the Correlates of Divorce?

253

(1)

Historical Changes in Divorce

254

(2)

Another American History of Divorce

256

(2)

Why Do Women Choose Divorce?

258

(1)

Divorce Transitions

259

(10)

Social Stigmatization

259

(2)

Economic Difficulties for Women

261

(3)

Divorce as an Opportunity

264

(2)

Remarriage

266

(3)

Children and Divorce

269

(8)

Child Custody

271

(2)

Child Support

273

(2)

Why Don't Men Pay?

275

(1)

Divorced Fathers

276

(1)

Finding Solutions: Where Were the Feminists?

277

(2)

The Micro-Macro Connection

279

(1)

Battering and Marital Rape

280

(28)

Prevalence of Violence in Families

282

(7)

Woman Battering

283

(3)

Murder by Intimates

286

(2)

Marital Rape

288

(1)

Measuring the Social Costs of Domestic Violence

289

(1)

Theories about Violence in Families

289

(11)

Why Does Violence Occur?

290

(1)

Explaining Woman Battering as a Result of Individual Characteristics

291

(1)

Violence-Prone Family Structure in Our Society

291

(3)

A Feminist Social-Structural View on Battering and Marital Rape

294

(3)

The Controversy over the Battered Husband Syndrome

297

(1)

Three Points of View, Three Strategies for Policy

298

(1)

The Discovery of Violence in Families

299

(1)

Finding Solutions

300

(7)

The Get-Tough-with-Abusers Campaign

302

(2)

The Battered Women's Movement

304

(2)

Violence against Women Act

306

(1)

The Micro-Macro Connection

307

(1)

Parents

308

(36)

Parents and Parenting

309

(3)

Parenting Role

310

(1)

Transition to Parenting

311

(1)

Mothering

312

(13)

Choosing Single Motherhood

313

(2)

Lesbigay Parents

315

(3)

Teenage Mothers

318

(4)

What Do Teen Mothers Have to Say about Motherhood?

322

(1)

Delaying Childbirth

322

(1)

High Technology and Mothering

323

(2)

What about Fathers?

325

(4)

Bringing Fathers into Parenting

326

(1)

New Fathers in Word and Deed

327

(1)

Single Fathers

328

(1)

Other Fathers

329

(1)

Coparenting

329

(5)

Childless by Choice

330

(2)

Grandparents

332

(2)

Is Biology Destiny?

334

(4)

What Is Wrong with the Sociobiological Model?

336

(1)

If Biology Is Not Destiny, Are Men and Women Identical as Parents?

337

(1)

Child Care

338

(5)

Lessons from History

342

(1)

The Micro-Macro Connection

343

(1)

Children

344

(35)

Postmodern American Children

346

(26)

Children as Learners of Adult Culture

346

(1)

Gender Socialization in Families

347

(3)

Social Interactionist Theory

350

(1)

Racial Socialization

351

(2)

Television Socializes Children

353

(3)

Children as Threats

356

(2)

The Positive Effects of Children on Parents

358

(3)

Children as Victims: Child Abuse

361

(1)

Mothers, Fathers, and Child Abuse

362

(2)

Incest

364

(2)

Radical Feminist Theory on Incest

366

(2)

Children as Victims: Poverty

368

(2)

Sisters and Brothers

370

(2)

Theoretical Problems in the Study of Children

372

(3)

How Do We Think of Children and Childhood?

372

(2)

How Accurate Is Our Image of Children?

374

(1)

Resistance against Child Abuse and Incest

375

(1)

PFLAG Does Real Family Values

376

(1)

The Micro-Macro Connection

377

(2)

Families, Family Policy, and the State

379

(26)

The Welfare State and Family Policy

381

(1)

Social Policy and Families: The Case of the Welfare System

382

(12)

Persistent Myths about Welfare Mothers

384

(2)

Welfare and Gender and Race

386

(1)

History and Trends for the Future in Welfare

387

(3)

Family Support Act

390

(1)

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act

391

(3)

Why Is There No Explicit Family Policy in the United States?

394

(6)

What Is a State?

396

(1)

The State and Inequality

397

(3)

Resistance to the Welfare System

400

(4)

The Micro-Macro Connection

404

(1)

References

405

(44)

Index

449

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