TY  - BOOK
AU  - Liazos,Alex
TI  - Families: Joys, Conflicts, and Changes
SN  - 9781315634661
AV  - HQ536.L53 
U1  - 306.850973 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Family
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Setting the Scene -- Family Changes, Family Continuities -- Seven Family Scenes -- Plymouth Colony, 1680s -- A Kentucky Mountain Family, 1887-1946 -- An Italian Family, 1910s-1930s -- A Lesbian Family, 1990s -- African American Families Returning South -- Working-Class English Families, 1950s -- Polynesian Families, 1930s -- What Are Families? -- Major Themes of the Book -- Appendix A: Data on U.S. Families -- Appendix B: Some Terms to Understand -- Chapter 2 Families in U.S. History -- Introduction and Overview -- Images and Fears of Family Decline -- Colonial Families -- Families under Industrialism -- Families in the Twentieth Century -- Companionate Families and Marriages -- Muncie, Indiana, 1890s, 1920s, and 1970s -- The 1950s, in Memory and Reality -- Enslaved and "Free" African American Families -- The African Heritage -- African American Families after Emancipation -- Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860 -- Sharecropping, the Journey North, and the 1950s -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Making Sense of Families -- Ideals, Longings, and Realities -- Perspectives on Families -- The Decline and Demise of Families -- Families Are Well and Healthy -- Anxious, Distressed, and Enduring Families -- Power, Feminism, and Families -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin -- Joan Walsh -- Judy Aulette -- Judith Stacey -- Summary -- Sociology, History, and Families -- Difficulties in the Study of Families -- "The Good Old Days" -- The Nuclear Family as "Normal" and Universal -- Family Secrets and Façades -- Conclusion: Beyond Power Struggles and Conflicts -- Chapter 4 Marriage, Cohabitation, and Same-Sex Marriage -- Marriages -- Why Marry? -- Some Statistics on Marriage -- Marriages in U.S. History -- Good Marriages and the Benefits of Marriage; Research on Marriage -- Characteristics of Good Marriages -- The Benefits of Marriage -- Marriages over Time -- Debates on the State of Marriage -- Feminist Critiques -- Marriages in Muncie, Indiana, in the 1970s -- The Decline of Marriage? -- The Rise of Cohabitation -- What Is Cohabitation? -- The Normalization of Cohabitation in Europe and the United States -- Why Do People Cohabit? -- Cohabitation and Divorce -- Cohabitation and the Law -- Same-Sex Couples-and Marriages? -- The Struggle for Same-Sex Marriages -- Same-Sex Unions in Other Countries -- Rights and Benefits -- Debates on Same-Sex Marriages -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Parents and Children -- The Joys of Childhood and Parenthood -- "Me and My Dad" -- Celebrating a Family's Good Times -- Why Have Children? -- Parents and Children in Earlier Times -- The Mundurucu of the Amazon in the 1950s -- The Tikopia of Polynesia in the 1930s -- The Mbuti of Zaire -- The Montagnais of the St. Lawrence Valley -- Our Babies, Ourselves: Some Lessons on Parenting -- Bonding -- Sleeping -- Touching -- Feeding -- Parents and Children in African American Communities -- All Our Kin -- Call to Home -- Historical Notes on Childhood and Parenting -- Children -- Parents -- Children Today -- Busy Parents, Fear, Computers, and the Decline of Childhood? -- "The Devaluation of the Work of Raising Children?" -- Child Care and Day Care -- Class, Race, and Childhood -- Parents Today -- Blaming Parents -- Fatherless America? -- One-Parent Families -- Gay and Lesbian Parents -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Living in Families -- Cooking and Eating Meals -- Being Together and Having Fun -- "Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship" -- Caregiving -- History -- Caregiving Today -- Call to Home and Caregiving -- Crisis in and Solutions of Caregiviging -- Experiences of Caregiving -- The Stresses of Caregiving; Homeless People and Their Families -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Families, Kin, and Communities -- Kin and Community of Sofia Stratis -- Extended Family and Kin -- Gathering-Hunting Societies -- Kinship in East London in the 1950s -- The Abkhasians -- Extended Families in U.S. History -- Plymouth Plantation -- Early Twentieth Century -- Second Half of the Twentieth Century -- Extended Families and Kin Today -- Extended Families -- Kin Ties of Elderly People -- Personal Reflections -- Grandparents and Grandchildren -- Three Societies, 1930s-1960s -- Grandparents in Recent U.S. History -- U.S. Grandparents Today -- The Importance and Benefits of Generational Ties -- Raising Grandchildren -- Families and Communities -- Societies outside the United States -- The United States through the 1800s -- The United States in the Twentieth Century -- Kin and Community Today: A Memory and a Wish? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Economies, Migration, and Families -- Migration and Families -- Poverty, the Search for Work, and Migration -- Migration to the United States -- Migration within the United States -- Debates on the Effects of Migration -- Migrants Who Return Home -- Reflections about Migration -- The Changing U.S. Economy -- The 1950s to mid-1970s -- Economic Problems and Inequalities since the 1970s -- Consequences for Families -- Families Doing Well -- Trials and Predicaments -- Families before Economies -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9 Families and Gender -- Sex and Gender -- Socialization, Social Barriers, and Resistance -- Gender in U.S. History -- Families and Gender Today -- Men as "Good Providers" -- Work, Income, and Gender -- Toward Equality and Sharing -- Conclusion: Sharing Our Lives -- Chapter 10 Class, Race, and Families -- Classes and Families -- What Are Classes? -- How Classes Shape Family Life -- Summary of Classes and Families -- Race and Ethnicity; Trials and Strengths of African American Families -- Economic and Social Statistics -- Breakdown or Strengths of African American Families? -- Summary of Race and Ethnicity -- Chapter 11 Families, Work, and Housework -- The Nature of Work -- Work, Identity, and Gender -- Interactions between Work and Family -- How Work and Family Influence Each Other -- Work and Types of Families -- Negative Spillover from Work -- A Theory of Family and Work -- Recent Changes and the Time Bind Debates -- Reversal of Home and Work? -- Trends in Hours at Work -- Why Do People Work Long Hours? -- Chaotic Lives and Other Issues -- What Are We to Do? -- Individual Solutions -- Social Policies and Political Struggles -- Some Guiding Principles -- Housework: Dust Wars and Stealing Our Lives -- Reflections and Scenes -- History and Nature of Housework -- Why Do Women Do Most Housework? Part I -- Why Do Women Do Most Housework? Part II -- Farming out Family Chores and Responsibilities -- Conclusion: Sharing It All -- Chapter 12 Divorce: A World Tradition -- Perspectives on Divorce -- A Universal Experience -- An American Tradition -- Statistics on Divorce -- Experiences, Attitudes, and Laws of Divorce -- Experiences -- Beliefs and Culture -- The Debate over No-Fault Divorce -- Women, Men, and Divorce -- Women's Experiences -- Men's Experiences -- Custody of Children -- Economic Issues -- Why Do People Divorce? -- Some Preliminary Observations -- The Rise in Divorce -- Other Conditions That May Contribute to Divorce -- An Ethic of "Obligation to Self"? -- Children and Divorce -- Facing Parental Separation -- Living Arrangements -- Child-Support Payments -- Divorced Fathers and Their Children -- Does Divorce Damage Children? -- What Do Children of Divorce Need? -- Life after Divorce -- "Divorce is never good, but good can come out of it" -- New Families; Conclusion: The Meanings of Divorce -- Chapter 13 Violence in Families -- Introduction -- Stories -- What Does It all Mean? -- Types of Violence -- Violence in Intimate Relationships -- Cultural Perspectives -- History of Violence in the United States -- How Much Violence? By Whom? -- Experiences of Violence, Control, and Terror -- Staying and Leaving -- Shelters -- The Reasons . . . ? Because He Could -- Isolation, Control, and Economic Dependence -- Other Explanations -- Men Beat Their Wives and Partners Because They Can -- What Should We Do? -- Progress Made -- An Anthropologist's View -- Jane Doe, Inc. -- Autonomy and Gender Equality -- Men against Violence -- Legal Strategies -- The Limits of Therapy -- Some Practical Advice -- Conclusion -- Chapter 14 Closing Reflections and Parting Comments -- Recent and Ongoing Changes -- Same-Sex Marriages -- Divorce -- Working Mothers -- Perspectives on Families -- Some Important Reminders -- A Toast and a Wish: More Family Time -- References -- Index -- About the Author
N2  - Unlike other family textbooks that mostly emphasize conflicts and problems, this book also features the joys and pleasures of family living and its mutually nourishing qualities
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