Public and Private Families : A Reader

by Cherlin, Andrew J.

• ISBN13: 9780072526455
• ISBN10: 0072526459
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-08
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

This reader examines the family through two lenses--the familiar private family, in which we live our personal lives, and the public family, in which we deal with broader societal issues, such as raising the next generation, and the care of the elderly. Consequently, these readings look both at intimate, personal concerns, such as whether to marry, as well as societal concerns, such as governmental policies that affect families. The reader corresponds exactly to and is published concurrent with Cherlin's textbook Public and Private Families: An Introduction; both the textbook and the reader have 15 same-named chapters.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
PART ONE Introduction
Public and Private Families	3	(21)
A ``Quieting'' of Family Change	5	(9)
Lynne M. Casper
Suzanne M. Bianchi
On the Way to a Post-Familial Family From a Community of Need to Elective Affinities	14	(10)
Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
The History of the Family	24	(23)
An Archaeology of American Monogamy	26	(10)
Nancy F. Cott
From Patriarchy to Androgyny and Other Myths: Placing Men's Family Roles in Historical Perspective	36	(11)
Steven Mintz
PART TWO Gender, Class, and Race-Ethnicity
Gender and Families	47	(22)
Doing Gender	49	(10)
Candace West
Don H. Zimmerman
Feeding as ``Women's Work''	59	(10)
Marjorie L. DeVault
Social Class and Families	69	(33)
Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families	71	(23)
Annette Lareau
The Black Middle Class	94	(8)
Mary Pattillo
Race, Ethnicity, and Families	102	(33)
``I'm Here, but I'm There'': The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood	104	(14)
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Ernestine Avila
Family Values	118	(17)
Katherine S. Newman
PART THREE Sexuality, Love, Partnership, and Marriage
Sexuality and Love	135	(16)
Gay Marriage	137	(5)
Steven Seidman
Sexual Desire and Gender	142	(9)
Pepper Schwartz
Virginia Rutter
Spouses and Partners	151	(24)
From Role to Self: The Emergence of Androgynous Love in the 20th Century	153	(14)
Francesca M. Cancian
The Theory and Practice of the Pure Relationship	167	(8)
Anthony Giddens
Work and Families	175	(26)
The Cost of Caring	177	(7)
Paula England
Nancy Folbre
Joey's Problem: Nancy and Evan Holt	184	(17)
Arlie Hochschild
PART FOUR Links across the Generations
Children and Parents	201	(26)
Why Can't a Mother Be More Like a Businessman?	203	(15)
Sharon Hays
Blood Knots: Adoption, Reproduction, and the Politics of Family	218	(9)
Elizabeth Bartholet
The Elderly and Their Families	227	(38)
Beyond the Nuclear Family: The Increasing Importance of Multigenerational Bonds	229	(12)
Vern L. Bengtson
Men and Women: Together and Apart in Later Years	241	(24)
Katherine S. Newman
PART FIVE Conflict, Disruption, and Reconstitution
Domestic Violence	265	(18)
Class, Race, and Research on Woman Battering	266	(7)
James Ptacek
Dangerous Dependencies: The Intersection of Welfare Reform and Domestic Violence	273	(10)
Ellen K. Scott
Andrew S. London
Nancy A. Myers
Divorce	283	(18)
Life without Father: What Happens to the Children?	284	(5)
Sara McLanahan
``Doing'' Post-Divorce Childhood	289	(12)
Carol Smart
Bren Neale
Amanda Wade
Remarriage and Stepfamilies	301	(26)
Overlooked Aspects of Stepfathering	303	(14)
William Marsiglio
Stepfamilies over the Life Course: Social Support	317	(10)
Lynn White
PART SIX Family and Society
The Family, the State, and Social Policy	327	(24)
How Is the 1996 Welfare Reform Law Affecting Poor Families?	329	(8)
Andrew J. Cherlin
Marriage as a Precommitment	337	(14)
Elizabeth S. Scott
Social Change and Families	351	(2)
Decline of the Family: Conservative, Liberal, and Feminist Views	353	(16)
Janet Z. Giele
Family Change and Family Diversity	369
Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.
References	1