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| Preface | |
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| How to Study Families in the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Analyzing Social Life | |
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| The Sociological Imagination: Bridging the Gap between Individuals and Society | |
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| Micro and Macro Levels of Analysis | |
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| Society Is a Human Invention | |
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| Families as a Political Issue | |
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| Families: Hot Issue in the United States | |
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| The Personal is Political | |
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| Recent History of the Sociology of Family | |
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| Women's Liberation Movement | |
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| Revisioning Families | |
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| Challenging the Myth of the Monolithic Family | |
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| Appreciating Diversity | |
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| The Monolithic Family and the Denial of Historical Change | |
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| Observing That Families Are the Sites of Many Different Social Activities | |
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| Acknowledging Differences within Families by Gender and Age | |
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| Asking Whether Families are Separate from the Rest of Society | |
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| Creating Families That Provide Both Love and Individual Freedom | |
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| Asserting the Need to Change Families so They Can Better Serve the Needs of Women, Men and Children | |
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| The Question of Theory | |
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| A History of Families with a Focus on Euro-Americans | |
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| Studying the Social History of Families | |
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| Stages in the History of Euro-American Families | |
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| The Godly Family | |
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| Iroquois Families | |
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| The Modern Family, Stage 1: The Democratic Family | |
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| The Split between Family and Work among Euro-Americans | |
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| The Cult of True Womanhood | |
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| The Ideal of Real Womanhood | |
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| Capitalist Industrialization and the Working-Class Family | |
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| The Problem of the Family Wage | |
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| Pioneer Families: Leaving Friends, Facing Hardship | |
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| The Modern Family, Stage II: The Companionate Family | |
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| The Twentieth Century and the History of Childhood | |
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| Families during the Great Depression | |
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| World War II and Families | |
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| World War II and Marriage | |
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| World War II and Divorce | |
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| Japanese American Families during the War | |
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| The Fifties | |
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| Periodicizing | |
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| The First-Wave Women's Movement | |
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| The Micro-Macro Connection | |
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| A History of U.S. Families with a Focus on African Americans | |
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| Diversity in American Families | |
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| Four Periods in African American History | |
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| Slavery | |
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| Family Life under Slavery | |
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| Family Organization and Black Women's Role in a Community of Slaves | |
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| Comparing White Middle-Class Women to African American Women in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Reproduction | |
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| Split Households among Chicanos and Chinese Americans | |
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| Chicano Families | |
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| Chinese American Families | |
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| Sharecropping | |
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| Who Shall Control Women's and Children's Labor? | |
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| Gender Equality and Changes in Families Under Sharecropping | |
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| Industrialization | |
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| African American Families in the Struggle for Equality | |
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| Structuration Theory and the Importance of Agency | |
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| The Micro-Macro Connection | |
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| Families and the Economic System | |
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| The Critical Link between Families and the Economy | |
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| The Contemporary Economic Scene in the United States: The Great U-Turn | |
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| Unemployment | |
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| Economic Decline and Poverty | |
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| The New Economy | |
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| More Workers per Family | |
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| Increased Debt | |
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| Housing | |
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| Growing Homelessness | |
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| The Rich Get Richer | |
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| Economic Decline and U.S. Families | |
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| Homelessness | |
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| Shelters: An Inadequate Solution | |
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| Blue-Collar Layoffs | |
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| Downward Mobility in the Middle Class | |
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| Responding to Economic Crisis | |
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| Social Victims or Social Critics? | |
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| Campaign for a Living Wage | |
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| What Is Behind the Great U-Turn? | |
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| The First Revolution | |
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| The Second Revolution | |
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| Postindustrial Society: A Third Revolution? | |
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| The Micro--Macro Connection | |
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| Families and the Organization of Race, Class, and Gender | |
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| Systems of Stratification | |
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| What Is Social Class? | |
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| Race Ethnicity | |
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| Immigration | |
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| Gender | |
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| Social Class, Race Ethnicity and, Gender and Family Life | |
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| Upper-Class Families: Gatekeepers | |
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| Middle-Class Families | |
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| Georgraphic Mobility | |
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| The Black Middle Class | |
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| Working-Class White Families | |
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| Working-Class African American Families: The Moynihan Report and Its Historical Context | |
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| The Flats | |
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| Swapping | |
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| Bloodmothers and Other Mothers | |
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| Household and Family | |
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| Extended Network Families in Racial Ethnic Communities | |
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| Women's Domestic Authority | |
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| Immigrant Families | |
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| Mexican Americans | |
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| Vietnamese Immigrant Families | |
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| What Is a Family? | |
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| Renewed Interest in Poor Families | |
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| The Culture of Poverty | |
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| Social Structural Model | |
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| Do Families Contain the Seeds of Resistance? | |
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| The Mothers of East Los Angeles | |
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| The Micro--Macro Connection | |
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| Work and Family | |
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| Myth of Separate Spheres | |
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| The Study of Work and Family is Distorted by the Concept of Separate Spheres | |
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| Young Women Speak of Work and Family in Their Future | |
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| Women in the Paid Labor Force | |
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| Why Have Women Increasingly Entered the Labor Force? | |
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| How Do Women Choose to Work? | |
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| Chicanas and a Fifth Way of Choosing to Work for Wages | |
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| Why Do Men Work? | |
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| How Does Work Influence Families? | |
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| Absorption | |
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| Time and Timing | |
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| A Special Case of Timing: Working Parents and Their Children | |
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| Teenage Workers and Their Families | |
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| Retirement | |
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| Income | |
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| Exchange Theory | |
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| A Feminist Critique of Exchange Theory | |
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| Worldview | |
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| Emotional Climate | |
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| The Influence of Families on Work | |
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| Bringing the Family to Work | |
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| Managing the Contradiction | |
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| Can Families Put Pressure for Change on Employers? | |
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| Flextime | |
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| Family Leave | |
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| The Micro--Macro Connection | |
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| Housework | |
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| Housework, the Invisible Occupation | |
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| What Is It Like to Be a Housewife? | |
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| Who Does the Housework? | |
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| How Are the Tasks Divided? | |
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| Social-Class Variation | |
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| Children's Work in Families | |
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| Feeding the Family | |
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| The Difference between Full-Time Housewives and Part-Time Housewives | |
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| High Tech and Housework | |
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| A Recent Addition to the Tasks of the Housewife | |
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| Why Is Housework Divided Unequally? | |
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| Socializing Housewives | |
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| Making a Rational Choice | |
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| Unequal Work and the Politics of Gender | |
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| What Can Be Done about Inequality in the Division of Housework? | |
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| Negotiating New Ways to Divide Work | |
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| Mothers as Gatekeepers | |
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| Hiring a Maid | |
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| Solving the Problem of Housework through Policy Change | |
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| The Micro--Macro Connection | |
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| Love and Sex | |
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| What Is Love? | |
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| Historical Development of Love | |
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| Postmodern Romance | |
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| Human Sexuality | |
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| Sexual Standards | |
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| Sex and the Law | |
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| Problems in Sex Research | |
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| Ideas about Sex | |
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| Premarital Sex | |
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| Teen Romance | |
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| The Marriage Bed | |
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| Nonmonogamous Activity | |
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| HIV/AIDS | |
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| Some Theoretical Debates on Sexuality | |
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| Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, and Lesbianism | |
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| Explaining the Focus on Sex | |
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| Abortion | |
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| Debates about Abortion | |
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| The Micro--Macro Connection | |
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| Marriage | |
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| Characteristics of Marriage | |
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| Marriage Is a Legal Contract | |
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| Three Periods of Marriage and Family Law | |
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| Marriage Is an Economic Arrangement | |
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| Marriage Is a Sexual Relationship | |
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| Marriage Means Commitment | |
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| Marriage Is a Political Arena | |
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| Power in Communication | |
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| Religion, Politics, and Marriage | |
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| Statistics on Marriage | |
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| Age at First Marriage | |
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| Racial Ethnic Differences in Age at First Marriage | |
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| Marrying across Racial Ethnic Lines | |
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| Long-Term Marriage | |
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| Widowhood | |
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| Transition to Marriage | |
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| Cohabitation and Domestic Partnerships | |
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| Singles | |
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| Theoretical Debate on Marriage | |
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| Families We Choose | |
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| The Micro--Macro Connection | |
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| Divorce and Remarriage | |
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| How to Measure Divorce | |
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| Rates of Divorce | |
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| What Are the Correlates of Divorce? | |
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| Historical Changes in Divorce | |
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| Another American History of Divorce | |
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| Why Do Women Choose Divorce? | |
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| Divorce Transitions | |
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| Social Stigmatization | |
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| Economic Difficulties for Women | |
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| Divorce as an Opportunity | |
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| Remarriage | |
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| Children and Divorce | |
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| Child Custody | |
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| Child Support | |
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| Why Don't Men Pay? | |
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| Divorced Fathers | |
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| Finding Solutions: Where Were the Feminists? | |
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| The Micro--Macro Connection | |
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| Battering and Marital Rape | |
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| Prevalence of Violence in Families | |
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| Woman Battering | |
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| Murder by Intimates | |
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| Marital Rape | |
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| Measuring the Social Costs of Domestic Violence | |
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| Theories about Violence in Families | |
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| Why Does Violence Occur? | |
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| Explaining Woman Battering as a Result of Individual Characteristics | |
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| Violence-Prone Family Structure in Our Society | |
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| A Feminist Social-Structural View on Battering and Marital Rape | |
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| The Controversy over the Battered Husband Syndrome | |
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| Three Points of View, Three Strategies for Policy | |
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| The Discovery of Violence in Families | |
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| Finding Solutions | |
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| The Get-Tough-with-Abusers Campaign | |
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| The Battered Women's Movement | |
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| Violence Against Women Act | |
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| The Micro-Macro Connection | |
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| Parents | |
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| Parents and Parenting | |
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| Parenting Role | |
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| Transition to Parenting | |
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| Mothering | |
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| Choosing Single Motherhood | |
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| Lesbian Mothers | |
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| Teenage Mothers | |
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| Delaying Childbirth | |
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| High Technology and Mothering | |
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| What about Fathers? | |
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| Bringing Fathers into Parenting | |
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| New Fathers in Word and Deed | |
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| Gay Fathers | |
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| Single Fathers | |
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| Other Fathers | |
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| Childless by Choice | |
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| Grandparents | |
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| Is Biology Destiny? | |
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| What Is Wrong with the Sociobiological Model? | |
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| If Biology Is Not Destiny, Are Men and Women Identical as Parents? | |
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| Child Care | |
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| Lessons from History | |
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| The Micro-Macro Connection | |
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| Children | |
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| Post-Modern American Children | |
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| Children as Learners of Adult Culture | |
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| Gender Socialization in Families | |
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| Social Constructionist Theory | |
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| Racial Socialization | |
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| Television Socializes Children | |
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| Children as Threats | |
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| Positive Effects of Children on Parents | |
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| Children as Victims: Child Abuse | |
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| Mothers, Fathers, and Child Abuse | |
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| Incest | |
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| Radical Feminist Theory on Incest | |
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| Children as Victims: Poverty | |
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| Sisters and Brothers | |
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| Theoretical Problems in the Study of Children | |
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| How Do We Think of Children and Childhood? | |
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| How Accurate Is Our Image of Children? | |
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| Resistance against Child Abuse and Incest | |
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| Child Victims of Sexual Abuse: A Bill of Rights | |
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| The Micro-Macro Connection | |
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| Families, Family Policy and the State | |
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| The Welfare State and Family Policy | |
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| Social Policy and Families: The Case of the Welfare System | |
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| Persistent Myths about Welfare Mothers | |
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| Welfare and Gender and Race | |
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| History and Trends for the Future in Welfare | |
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| Family Support Act | |
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| Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act | |
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| Why Is There No Explicit Family Policy in the United States? | |
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| What Is a State? | |
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| The State and Inequality | |
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| Resistance to the Welfare System | |
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| The Micro-Macro Connection | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |