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9780300080834

Gender Vertigo : American Families in Transition

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    9780300080834

  • ISBN10:

    0300080832

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 1999-09-10
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
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Summary

Can men mother? Can women be breadwinners? This book investigates single fathers, married baby boom mothers, and heterosexual egalitarian couples and their children to discover how family relationships can flourish without gender as the central organizing mechanism.

Author Biography

Barbara Risman is professor of sociology at North Carolina State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. xi
Introductionp. 1
Gender as Structurep. 13
Necessity and the Invention of Motheringp. 45
Women's Hard Choices: Mothering in the Twentieth Centuryp. 72
Playing Fair: Equity for the Educationally Elitep. 93
Ideology, Experience, Identity: The Complex Worlds of Children in Fair Familiesp. 128
Toward a Dizzy but Liberating Futurep. 151
Referencesp. 163
Indexp. 185
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