Public and Private Families : A Reader

by Cherlin, Andrew J.

• ISBN13: 9780070119291
• ISBN10: 0070119295
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-08-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education

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	vii	(2)
About the Author	ix
PART ONE Introduction	3	(80)
1. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FAMILIES	3	(27)
Sara McLanahan
Lynne Casper
"Growing Diversity and Inequality in the American Family"	5	(12)
Stephanie Coontz
"The Way We Wish We Were: Defining the Family Crisis"	17	(13)
2. THE HISTORY OF THE FAMILY	30	(23)
Elaine Tyler May
"Cold War, Warm Hearth"	32	(8)
Arland Thornton
"Comparative and Historical Perspectives on Marriage, Divorce, and Family Life"	40	(13)
3. GENDER AND FAMILIES	53	(30)
Walter L. Williams
"Family Matters: The Economic and Social Position of the Berdache"	55	(9)
Jessie Bernard
"The Good-Provider Role--Its Rise and Fall"	64	(19)
PART TWO Race, Ethnicity, Class, and the State	83	(60)
4. SOCIAL CLASS AND FAMILIES	83	(15)
Susan Sheehan
"Ain't No Middle Class"	85	(13)
5. RACE, ETHNICITY, AND FAMILIES	98	(21)
Mercer L. Sullivan
"Absent Fathers in the Inner City"	100	(8)
Lillian B. Rubin
"Families on the Fault Line"	108	(11)
6. THE FAMILY, THE STATE, AND SOCIAL POLICY	119	(24)
Andrew J. Cherlin
"How Will the 1996 Welfare Reform Law Affect Poor Families?"	120	(7)
Mark Robert Rank
"Family Dynamics"	127	(16)
PART THREE Sexuality, Partnership, and Marriage	143	(82)
7. SEXUALITY AND LOVE	143	(21)
Robert T. Michael
John H. Gagnon
Edward O. Laumann
Gina Kolata
"Sex and Society"	145	(10)
Fenton Johnson
"Wedded to an Illusion: Do Gays and Lesbians Really Want the Right to Marry?"	155	(9)
8. PATHS TO FAMILY FORMATION	164	(30)
Ellen K. Rothman
"In Our Own Time, 1920-1980"	166	(17)
Kristin Luker
"Dubious Conceptions: The Controversy over Teen Pregnancy"	183	(11)
9. SPOUSES AND PARTNERS	194	(31)
Francesca M. Cancian
"From Role to Self: The Emergence of Androgynous Love in the 20th Century"	196	(16)
Jay Belsky
John Kelly
"The His and Hers Transition"	212	(13)
PART FOUR Power, Conflict, and Disruption	225	(92)
10. WORK AND FAMILIES	225	(16)
Arlie Hochschild
"Joey's Problem: Nancy and Evan Holt"	227	(14)
11. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE	241	(31)
Kathleen J. Ferraro
"Battered Women: Strategies for Survival"	241	(31)
Douglas J. Besharov
Lisa A. Laumann
"Don't Call It Child Abuse If It's Really Poverty"	257	(15)
12. DIVORCE	272	(23)
Eleanor E. Maccoby
Robert H. Mnookin
"The Parental Divorce: Coparenting Before and After Separation"	274	(10)
Terry Arendell
"Downward Mobility"	284	(11)
13. REMARRIAGE	295	(22)
Jamie K. Keshet
"The Remarried Couple: Stresses and Successes"	297	(14)
David L. Chambers
"The Law Ignores the Stepparent"	311	(6)
PART FIVE Links Across the Generations	317
14. CHILDREN AND PARENTS	317	(14)
Alex Kotlowitz
"There Are No Children Here"	319	(12)
15. THE ELDERLY AND THEIR FAMILIES	331	(16)
Samuel H. Preston
"Children and the Elderly in the United States"	333	(5)
Tamara K. Hareven
"Family and Generational Relations in the Later Years: A Historical Perspective"	338	(9)
16. SOCIAL CHANGE AND FAMILIES	347
Janet Z. Giele
"Decline of the Family: Conservative, Liberal, and Feminist Views"	349	(16)
Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.
"The Future of Marriage"	365