Description |
vii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
From patriarchy to androgyny and other myths : placing men's family roles in historical perspective / Steven Mintz -- Bastardy, fitness, and the invention of adolescence / Kristin Luker -- Modernization of grandparenthood / Andrew J. Cherlin and Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. -- Historical perspectives on family diversity / Stephanie Coontz -- Fertility on the frontier : bringing women back in / Anita Ilta Garey -- Multigenerational families in nineteenth-century America / Steven Ruggles -- Calling cards and money / Beth L. Bailey -- Making time for family : the invention of family time(s) and the reinvention of family history / John Gillis -- Civil contract and family life in the United States / Lisa J. McIntyre -- Do wedding dresses come in lavender? The prospects and implications of same-sex marriage / Angela Bolte -- Constructing mothers : scientific motherhood in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Rima D. Apple -- Motherhood denied : women and infertility in historical perspective / Margaret Marsh -- America's home front children in World War II / William M. Tuttle, Jr. -- Containment at home : Cold War, warm hearth / Elaine Tyler May -- Our mothers' grief : racial ethnic women and the maintenance of families / Bonnie Thornton Dill -- Arduous transition to the industrial north / Donna L. Franklin -- Who deserves help? Who must provide? / Linda Gordon -- Money and morality / Sharon Hays -- Child care and social citizenship for women / Sonya Michel -- Lessons from abroad : leave policy from an international perspective / Steven K. Wisensale |
Subject |
Families -- United States -- History.
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Families. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Famille -- États-Unis -- Histoire. |
Added Author |
Ross, Susan M., 1968-
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ISBN |
0813538181 paperback alkaline paper |
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0813538173 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780813538174 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780813538181 paperback alkaline paper |
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