The Unfinished Revolution; Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family
ISBN: 9780199783328 | 0199783322
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 5/6/2011
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In the controversial public debate over modern American families, the vast changes in family life--the rise of single, two-paycheck , and same-sex parents--have often been blamed for declining morality and unhappy children. Drawing upon pioneering research with the children of the gender revolution, Kathleen Gerson reveals that it is not a lack of "family values," but rigid social and economic forces that make it difficult to have a vibrant and committed family and work life. Despite the entrance of women into the workforce and the blurring of ... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| The Shaping of a New Generation | p. 1 |
| Growing Up in Changing Families | |
| Families beyond the Stereotypes | p. 15 |
| The Rising Fortunes of Flexible Families | p. 46 |
| Domestic Deadlocks and Declining Fortunes | p. 72 |
| Facing the Future | |
| High Hopes, Lurking Fears | p. 103 |
| Women's Search for Self-Reliance | p. 124 |
| Men's Resistance to Equal Sharing | p. 159 |
| Reaching across the Gender Divide | p. 189 |
| Finishing the Gender Revolution | p. 214 |
| List of Respondents and Sample Demographics | p. 227 |
| Studying Social and Individual Change | p. 231 |
| Notes | p. 237 |
| References | p. 265 |
| Index | p. 283 |
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Kathleen Gerson is Professor of Sociology and Collegiate Professor at New York University. She is the author of No Man's Land: Men's Changing Commitments to Family and Work and Hard Choices: How Women Decide about Work, Career, and Motherhood.
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