Families in the U.S. : kinship and domestic politics / edited by Karen V. Hansen and Anita Ilta Garey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hansen, Karen V.

Garey, Anita Ilta, 1947-

Series:

Women in the political economy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--United States.

Families.

United States.

Family policy--United States.

Family policy.

Social structure--United States.

Social structure.

Social classes--United States.

Social classes.

Interracial marriage--United States.

Interracial marriage.

Gay parents--United States.

Gay parents.

Family violence--United States.

Family violence.

Work and family--United States.

Work and family.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 888 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1998.

Summary:

This engaging collection of essays attempts to do justice to the complexity of contemporary families and to situate them in their economic, political, and cultural contexts. The editors introduce this wide-ranging collection with a provocative analytical introduction, setting the stage with a recognition that families may look very different even to those inside the same family. These cutting-edge scholars explore the ways in which family life is gendered and reflect on the work of maintaining family and kin relationships, especially as social and family power structures change over time.

The book includes a guide to topics (from Adoption and African American Families to Work-Family Tensions and Working-Class Families) that should prove useful to teachers, students, and researchers.

Contents:

Introduction: Analyzing Families with a Feminist Sociological Imagination xv

I. Family Composition

A. Defining and Analyzing Families

1. Redefining Families: Who's In and Who's Out? / Martha Minow 7

2. Motherhood Under Patriarchy / Barbara Katz Rothman 21

3. Family, Feminism, and Race in America / Maxine Baca Zinn 33

4. Adoption and Kinship / Katarina Wegar 41

B. Family Structure and Accordion Households

5. Household Structure and Family Ideologies: The Case of Vietnamese Refugees / Nazli Kibria 55

6. Mortality Decline in the Twentieth Century and Supply of Kin over the Life Course / Peter Uhlenberg 69

7. Fertility on the Frontier: Women, Contraception, and Community / Anita Ilta Garey 79

8. Interpreting the African Heritage in Afro-American Family Organization / Niara Sudarkasa 91

II. Families Within Society

A. Families and the Economy

9. Time Squeeze: The Extra Month of Work / Juliet B. Schor 113

10. Capitalism and Gay Identity / John D'Emilio 131

11. Bread Before Roses: American Workingmen, Labor Unions, and the Family Wage / Martha May 143

12. Race, Poverty, and Women's Aging / Julianne Malveaux 157

13. Affluence and Poverty in Feeding the Family / Marjorie L. DeVault 171

14. Gender, Class, Family, and Migration: Puerto Rican Women in Chicago / Maura I. Toro-Morn 189

15. Children's Changing Access to Resources: A Historical Perspective / Donald J. Hernandez 201

B. Families and Community

16. The Anti-Social Family / Michele Barrett, Mary McIntosh 219

17. The Place of Kinfolk in Personal Community Networks / Barry Wellman 231

18. Housewife and Gadder: Themes of Self-Sufficiency and Community in Eighteenth-Century New England / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 241

19. Mexican American Women Grassroots Community Activists: Mothers of East Los Angeles / Mary Pardo 251

III. Webs of Family Relationships

A. Mothering, Motherhood, and Mothers

20. Why Women Mother / Nancy J. Chodorow 271

21. Chicana/o Family Structure and Gender Personality: Chodorow, Familism, and Psychoanalytic Sociology Revisited / Denise A. Segura, Jennifer L. Pierce 295

22. Catching Sense: Learning from Our Mothers to Be Black and Female / Suzanne C. Carothers 315

23. Jewish Lesbian Parenting / Linda J. Holtzman 329

24. Native American Mother / Judith K. Witherow 335

25. "I Am This Child's Mother": A Feminist Perspective on Mothering with a Disability / Claire Reinelt, Mindy Fried 339

B. Fathering, Fatherhood, and Fathers

26. American Fathering in Historical Perspective / Joseph H. Pleck 351

27. Fathers and Sons: Men's Experience and the Reproduction of Fatherhood / Nicholas W. Townsend 363

28. The Culture and Conduct of Fatherhood / Ralph LaRossa 377

29. "Best Case Scenarios": Fathers, Children, and Divorce / Terry Arendell 387

C. Kin Networks

30. Kinscripts / Carol B. Stack, Linda M. Burton 405

31. The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship / Micaela di Leonardo 419

32. Fictive Kin, Paper Sons, and Compadrazgo: Women of Color and the Struggle for Family Survival / Bonnie Thornton Dill 431

D. On Marriage and Divorce

33. The Two Marriages / Jessie Bernard 449

34. Wives' Marital Work in a Culture of Divorce / Karla B. Hackstaff 459

35. Why Gay People Should Seek the Right to Marry / Thomas B. Stoddard 475

36. Since When Is Marriage a Path to Liberation? / Paula L. Ettelbrick 481

37. Love Demands Everything / Phyllis Burke 487

38. Divorced Parents and the Jewish Community / Nathalie Friedman 495

IV. Complexities and Contradictions of Family Bonds

A. Caregiving

39. Ideals of Care: Traditional, Postmodern, Cold-Modern, and Warm-Modern / Arlie Russell Hochschild 527

40. The Invisible Women: Caregiving and AIDS / Nina Glick Schiller 539

41. The Ambiguities of Social Support: Adult Daughters Caring for Frail Elderly Parents / Emily K. Abel 557

42. Masculinity, Caregiving, and Men's Friendship in Antebellum New England / Karen V. Hansen 575

43. Revolutionary Parenting / bell hooks 587

44. Racial Safety and Cultural Maintenance: The Child Care Concerns of Employed Mothers of Color / Lynet Uttal 597

B. Violence, Power, and Families

45. Through a Feminist Lens: Gender, Power, and Violence / Kersti A. Yllo 609

46. Why Do Men Batter Their Wives? / James Ptacek 619

47. Felicia: Working with a Teen Mother in an Abusive Relationship / Bonnie Zimmer 635

48. Ten Myths That Perpetuate Corporal Punishment / Murray A. Straus 641

49. Child Abuse in Context: An Historian's Perspective / John Demos 651

V. Labor and Family Intersections

A. Mediating Work and Family

50. "My Mother Was Much of a Woman": Slavery / Jacqueline Jones 677

51. Constructing Motherhood on the Night Shift: "Working Mothers" as "Stay-at-Home Moms" / Anita Ilta Garey 709

52. Working at Motherhood: Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Mothers and Employment / Denise A. Segura 727

53. The Dialectics of Wage Work: Japanese-American Women and Domestic Service, 1905-1940 / Evelyn Nakano Glenn 745

54. The Parenting Approach to the Work-Family Dilemma / Rosanna Hertz 767

B. Household Division of Labor

55. The Working Wife as Urbanizing Peasant / Arlie Russell Hochschild, Anne Machung 779

56. Household Labor and the Routine Production of Gender / Scott Coltrane 791

57. Children's Share in Household Tasks / Frances K. Goldscheider, Linda J. Waite 809

58. "She Helped Me Hay It as Good as a Man": Relations Among Women and Men in an Agricultural Community / Grey Osterud 818

VI. Social Policy and Family Values

59. Children as Public Goods / Nancy Folbre 831

60. The Politics of Child Care in America's Public/Private Welfare State / Sonya Michel 837

61. Claiming All of Our Bodies: Reproductive Rights and Disability / Anne Finger 849

62. The Right Family Values / Judith Stacey 859.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1566395895

1566395909

OCLC:

37966485