Diversity in Families

by Baca Zinn, Maxine; Eitzen, D. Stanley; Wells, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780205406173
• ISBN10: 0205406173
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Summary

This award-winning text treats family diversity as the norm, while highlighting how race, class, gender, and sexuality produce varieties of familial relationships. Diversity in Families looks at families not as ";building blocks of societies"; but rather, as products of social forces within society. The authors undertake a critical examination of society, asking questions such as, ";How do families really work?"; and ";Who benefits under the existing arrangements, and who does not?"; Their goal is to demystify and demythologize the family by exposing existing myths, stereotypes, and dogmas. The seventh edition includes new research and extensive updates from government data and some of the best family studies resources such as the Handbook of Marriage and Family, 2/e, the Handbook of Family Diversity, and the Journal of Marriage and the Family. New Emergent Family Trends boxes investigate and analyze new family patterns and what they might mean for families in the future.

Table of Contents

Preface

Images, Ideals, and Myths

Pre-Industrial Families and the Emergence of a Modern Family Form

The Historical Making of Family Diversity

Societal Upheavals and Family Formation

Class, Race, and Gender

Meshing the Worlds of Work and Family

The Social Construction of Intimacy

Contemporary Marriages

Parents and Children

Violence in Families

Divorce and Remarriage

Domestic and Family Variations in a Global Era

Family Policy for the Twenty-First Century

Glossary

Bibliography

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