Family in Transition

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

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Part One: The Changing Family

• Chapter 1: Families Past and Present
• Reading 1: William J. Goode, "The Theoretical Importance of the Family”
• Reading 2: Anthony Giddens, “The Global Revolution in Family and Personal Life”
• Reading 3: Arlene Skolnick, “The Life Course Revolution”
• *Reading 4: Claude S.Fischer and Michael Hout, “The Family in Trouble?”
• Chapter 2: Public Debates and Private Live
• Reading 5: Sharon Hays, “The Mommy Wars”
• Reading 6: Janet Z. Giele, “Decline of the Family: Conservative, Liberal, and Feminist Views”
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Part Two: Sex and Gender

• Chapter 3: Changing Gender Roles
• Reading 7: Robert M. Jackson, “Destined for Equality”
• *Reading 8: Kathleen Gerson, "What do Women and Men Want? "
• *Reading 9: Andrew Greeley and Michael Hout, “The Conservative Christian Family and the Feminist Revolution”
• Chapter 4: Sexuality and Society
• Reading 10: Beth Bailey, “Sexual Revolutions”
• Reading 11: Paula England, “The Decline of Dating and the Rise of the Hook Up”
• Chapter 5: Courtship and Marriage
• Reading 12: Lynne M. Casper and Suzanne M. Bianchi, “Cohabitation”
• *Reading 13: Michael J. Rosenfeld, “ Alternative Unions and The Independent Life Stage.”
• *Reading 14: Andrew Cherlin, “American marriage in the early 21st century”
• Reading 15: Arlene Skolnick, “Grounds for Marriage: How Relationships Succeed or Fail”
• Chapter 6: Divorce and Remarriage
• *Reading 16: Laurence M. Friedman, “Divorce: The Silent Revolution”
• Reading 17: Joan B. Kelly and Robert E. Emery, “Children’s Adjustment Following Divorce: Risk and Resilience Perspectives”
• Reading 18: Mary Ann Mason, “The Modern American Stepfamily: Problems and Possibilities”
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Part Three: Parents and Children

• Chapter 7: Parenthood
• Reading 19: Philip Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan, “New Families: Modern Couples as New Pioneers”
• Reading 20: Dan Clawson and Naomi Gerstel, “Caring for Our Young: Child Care in Europe and the United States”
• Reading 21: Nicholas Townsend, “The Four Facets of Fatherhood
• Chapter 8: Childhood and Youth
• Reading 22: Steven Mintz, “Beyond Sentimentality: American Childhood as a Social and Cultural Construct”
• *Reading 23: Annette Lareau, “Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life”
• Reading 24: Vern L. Bengston, Timothy J. Biblarz, and Robert E.L. Roberts, “How Families Still Matter: A Longitudinal Study of Youth in Two Generations”
• *Reading 25: Jeffrey J. Arnett, “A Longer Road to Adulthood”
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Part Four: Families in Society

• Chapter 9: Work and Family Life
• Reading 26: Arlie Hochschild, with Anne Machung, "The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home
• Reading 27: Kathleen Gerson and Jerry A. Jacobs, “The Work-Home Crunch”
• *Reading 28: Pamela Stone, “The Rhetoric and Reality of Opting Out”
• Chapter 10: Family and the Economy
• Reading 29: Lillian B. Rubin, "Families on the Fault Line”
• Reading 30: Harriet B. Presser, “The Economy That Never Sleeps”
• Reading 31: Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi, “Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers are Going Broke”
• Chapter 10: Dimensions of Diversity
• Reading 32: Ronald L. Taylor, “Diversity within African American Families”
• Reading 33: Maxine Baca Zinn and Barbara Wells, “Diversity within Latino Families: New Lessons for Family Social Science”
• *Reading 34: Rona J. Karasik and Raeann R. Hamon, “Cultural Diversity and Aging Families”
• Reading 35:Judith Stacey, “Gay and Lesbian Families: Queer Like Us”
• Chapter 11: Trouble in the Family
• Reading 36: Jeremy Travis, “Prisoners’ Families and Children,”
• Reading 37: Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas, “Unmarried with Children”
• *Reading 38 : Michael P. Johnson, “Violence and Abuse in Personal Relationships”
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