Family in transition : rethinking marriage, sexuality, child rearing, and family organization /

"Balanced and comprehensive, scholarly but unintimidating, this collection captures the remarkable diversity of family life and offers a superb collection of current and classic readings for courses in family sociology." --Descripción del editor.

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Autor principal: Skolnick, Arlene S.
Otros Autores: Skolnick, Arlene S., 1933- (ed.), Skolnick, Jerome H. (ed.)
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: New York : HarperCollins, 1992.
Edición:7th ed.
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  • Part I. The changing family: 1. Family origins and history: The origin of the family / Kathleen Gough
  • American families in transition: historical perspectives on change / Tamara K. Hareven
  • The politics and history of family violence / Linda Gordon
  • Death and the family / Peter Uhlenberg
  • 2. Contemporary trends: Twentieth-century changes in household technology / Ruth Schwartz Cowan
  • American families : as they are and were / Paul C. Glick
  • The modernization of grandparenthood / Andrew Cherlin, Frank F. Furstenberg Jr.
  • Part II. Gender and sex: 3. Gender and inequality: The good-provider role : its rise and fall / Jessie Bernard
  • 4. Sexuality: Sex and the coupled life / Lillian Breslow Rubin
  • Sex in transition, 1900-1980 / Carol A. Darling, David J. Kallen, Joyce E. VanDusen
  • Dubious conceptions : the controversy over teen pregnancy / Kristin Luker
  • Part III. Coupling: 5. Love and marriage: Five types of marriage / John F. Cuber and Peggy B. Harroff
  • Marital upset / Robert S. Weiss
  • The marriage license as a hitting license / Murray A. Straus, Richard Gelles, Suzanne Steinmetz
  • 6. Divorce and remarriage: Transformation of legal marriage through no-fault divorce / Lenore J. Weitzman, Ruth B. Dixon
  • Mothers and divorce : downward mobility / Terry Arendell
  • The impact of divorce on children / Susan E. Krantz
  • Starting a new life : the positive consequences of divorce / Catherine Kohler Riessman
  • The remarriage transition / Constance R. Ahrons, Roy H. Rodgers
  • Part IV. Children in the family: 7. Children: The social transformation of childhood / Robert A. LeVine, Merry White
  • Pricing the priceless child: from baby farms to black market babies / Viviana A. Zelizer
  • The impact of intimate violence / Richard J. Gelles, Murray A. Straus
  • 8. Parents: Transition to parenthood / Alice S. Rossi
  • Good dads, bad dads : two faces of fatherhood / Frank F. Furstenberg Jr.
  • Single mothers : a review and critique of current research / Martha T. Mednick
  • Part V. Families in society: 9. The economy, work and family life: The downwardly mobile family / Katherine S. Newman
  • Family, race, and poverty in the eighties / Maxine Baca Zinn
  • Working mothers and their families / Sandra Scarr, Deborah Phillips, Kathleen McCartney
  • The second shift : working parents and the revolution at home / Arlie Hochschild, Anne Machung
  • 10. Variations in family experience: Developments in research on black families: a decade review / Robert Joseph Taylor, Linda M. Chatters, M. Belinda Tucker, Edith Lewis
  • Asian families / Steven P. Shon, Davis Y. Ja
  • Hispanic families in the 1980s: a decade of research / William A. Vega
  • Sprouting some odd branches: a divorce-extended family / Judith Stacey
  • Variations on a theme / Jean Seligmann
  • The family in an aging society: a matrix of latent relationships / Matilda White Riley
  • 11. The cultural politics of family life: Motherhood and morality in America / Kristin Luker
  • The strange career of the "Harvard-Yale study" / Andrew Cherlin
  • The history of love : theories and debates / Francesca M. Cancian.