| Edition |
11th ed. |
| Description |
ix, 502 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The changing family. The global revolution in family and personal life / Anthony Giddens -- The life course revolution / Arlene Skolnick -- What we really miss about the 1950's / Stephanie Coontz -- The mommy wars : ambivalence, ideological work, and the cultural contradictions of motherhood / Sharon Hays -- Decline of the family : conservative, liberal, and feminist views / Janet Z. Giele. The sexes. Destined for equality / Robert M. Jackson -- Children of the gender revolution : some theoretical questions and findings from the field / Kathleen Gerson -- Men's family work : child-centered fathering and the sharing of domestic labor / Scott Coltrane and Michele Adams -- Japan's battle of the sexes : the search for common ground / Sumiko Iwao -- Sexual revolution(s) / Beth Bailey -- Culture channels sexuality / Burton Pasternak, Carol R. Ember, and Melvin Ember -- Going-with : the role of a social form in early romance / Don E. Merten -- The future of marriage / Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. -- Few good men : why poor mothers stay single / Kathryn Edin -- Peer marriage : what does it take to create a truly egalitarian relationship? / Pepper Schwartz -- Divorce culture : a quest for relational equality in marriage / Karla B. Hackstaff -- Women in stepfamilies : the fairy godmother, the wicked witch, and Cinderella reconstructed / Anne C. Bernstein -- Divorce : challenges, changes, and new chances / E. Mavis Hetherington, Tracy C. Law, and Thomas G. O'Connor. |
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Parents and children. Becoming a parent / Carolyn P. Cowan and Phillip A. Cowan -- A typology of approaches to child care : the centerpiece of organizing family life for dual-earner couples / Rosanna Hertz -- Chasing the blood tie : surrogate mothers, adoptive mothers, and fathers / Helena Ragoné -- Revolutions in children's lives / Donald Hernandez, with David E. Myers -- What children think about their working parents / Ellen Galinsky. Families in society. Families on the fault line / Lillian B. Rubin -- The family and part-time work / Cynthia Fuchs Epstein ... [et al.] -- The second shift : working parents and the revolution at home / Arlie Hochschild, with Anne Machung -- Mixed doubles / Robert Suro -- Diversity within African American families / Ronald L. Taylor -- Diversity within Latino families : new lessons for family social science / Maxine Baca Zinn and Barbara Wells -- Reinventing the family / Laura Benkov -- The family in an aging society : a matrix of latent relationships / Matilda White Riley -- The modernization of grandparenthood / Andrew J. Cherlin and Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. -- Why do they do it? / Kristin Luker -- Family values against the odds / Katherine S. Newman -- Anatomy of a violent relationship / Neil S. Jacobson and John M. Gottman -- Monster moms : on the art of misdirection / Barry Glassner. |
| Subject |
Families.
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Families. |
| Added Author |
Skolnick, Arlene S., 1933-
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Skolnick, Jerome H.
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| ISBN |
0205325262 alkaline paper |
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