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Summary Table of Contents

This classic 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: Family in Transition

(14)

PART ONE The Changing Family

(76)

Families Past and Present

(23)

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(6)

Anthony Giddens

``The Life Course Revolution''

(8)

Arlene Skolnick

``What We Really Miss about the 1950s''

(9)

Stephanie Coontz

Public Debates and Private Lives

(51)

``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

``Family Law in the New Millennium: For Whose Families?''

(15)

Mary Ann Mason

Mark A. Fine

Sarah Carnochan

PART TWO The Sexes

(124)

Changing Gender Roles

(34)

``Destined for Equality''

(8)

Robert M. Jackson

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

103

(12)

Kathleen Gerson

``Men's Family Work: Child-Centered Fathering and the Sharing of Domestic Labor''

115

(14)

Scott Coltrane

Michele Adams

Sexuality and Society

129

(14)

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

129

(5)

Amy T. Schalet

``Premarital Sex before the `Sexual Revolution''

134

(9)

Julia Ericksen

Sally A. Steffen

Courtship and Marriage

143

(35)

``Dating Scripts Revisited''

143

(9)

Mary Riege Laner

Nicole A. Ventrone

``Modern Marriage: From Meal `Ticket to Best Friend''

152

(9)

Paula Kamen

``Few Good Men: Why Poor Mothers Stay Single''

161

(10)

Kathryn Edin

``The Future of Marriage''

171

(7)

Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.

Divorce and Remarriage

178

(37)

``Divorce Culture: A Quest for Relational Equality in Marriage''

178

(12)

Karla B. Hackstaff

``The Consequences of Divorce for Adults and Children''

190

(25)

Paul R. Amato

PART THREE Parents and Children

215

(84)

Parenthood

218

(45)

``Becoming a Parent''

218

(13)

Carolyn P. Cowan

Phillip A. Cowan

``A Typology of Approaches to Child Care: The Centerpiece of Organizing Family Life for Dual-Earner Couples''

231

(24)

Rosanna Hertz

``Transracial and Open Adoption: New Forms of Family Relationships''

255

(8)

Mary Lyndon Shanley

Childhood

263

(36)

``Revolutions in Children's Lives''

263

(10)

Donald Hernandez

David E. Myers

``What Children Think about Their Working Parents''

273

(11)

Ellen Galinsky

``Going to Extremes: Family Structure, Children's Well-Being, and Social Science''

284

(15)

Andrew J. Cherlin

PART FOUR Families in Society

299

Work and Family

303

``Families on the Fault Line''

303

Lillian B. Rubin

``Family Values against the Odds''

320

Katherine S. Newman

``The Family and Part-Time Work''

335

Cynthia Fuchs Epstein

Carroll Seron

Bonnie Oglensky

Robert Saute

``Changing the Structure and Culture of Work: Work and Family Conflict, Work Flexibility, and Gender Equity in the Modern Workplace''

349

Kathleen Gerson

Jerry A. Jacobs

Dimensions of Diversity

365

``Diversity within African American Families''

365

Ronald L. Taylor

``Diversity within Latino Families: New Lessons for Family Social Science''

389

Maxine Baca Zinn

Barbara Wells

``Reinventing the Family''

415

Laura Benkov

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

436

Karen Pyke

``Beyond the Nuclear Family: The Increasing Importance of Multigenerational Bonds''

457

Vern L. Bengtson

Trouble in the Family

479

``Why Do They Do It?''

479

Kristin Luker

``Research on Domestic Violence in the 1990s: Making Distinctions''

493

Michael P Johnson

Kathleen J. Ferraro

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