Families As We Are Conversations from Around the World

Name: Families As We Are Conversations from Around the World
Price: 6.09 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781558612501

ISBN-10: 1558612505

ISBN-13: 9781558612501

Edition: 2001

Authors: Perdita Huston

List price: $25.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

3 new & used from $6.09

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

A recent speech by Gary Bauer from the conservative Family Research Council decried the decline of traditional family values as "a moral earthquake in our society." But what are "traditional family values?" How are family values __ and the realities that shape them-really changing? Are all the changes really for the worse? Seasoned journalist Perdita Huston spent four years responding to these questions by going to the primary source: families themselves. Families As We Are includes interviews with and photographs of families from Brazil to Jordan, Sweden to Thailand. Huston's conversations, often with several family members of different generations, lead her to conclude that while the…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Publication date: 3/1/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Listening to Others, Hearing Ourselves



Families and Change



Families As We Were



Living Together, Growing Apart



Generations and Genders



Cherishing Our Wisdom



Womanhood Transformed



Manhood Revisited



Changing Childhood, Challenged Parents



Youth's Search for Life Maps



Facing the Challenges



Nature's Families, People's Needs



Family Health, Personal Risks



Faltering Households, Families Rebuilt


Conclusion: Private Lives and Public Policies


Notes