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