The Family Experience

* Denotes selections new to this edition.

Preface.


General Introduction.
I.MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVES.

1.The Changing Family: History and Politics.


* Stephanie Coontz, Where Are the Good Old Days?



Mark Hutter, Immigrant Families in the City.



Niara Sudarkasa, Interpreting the African Heritage in Afro-American Family Organization.



David Popenoe, Family Decline in America.

2.The Family, Kinship, and the Community.


Micaela di Leonardo, The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship.



Mary Pardo, Mexican American Women Grassroots Community Activists: The Mothers of East Los Angeles.



* Nazli Kibria, Household Structure and Family Ideologies: The Dynamics of Immigrant Economic Adaptation Among Vietnamese Refugees.

II.GENDER RELATIONS: INEQUALITY, SEXUALITY, AND INTIMACY.

3.Premarital and Mate Selection Relationships.


* A. Ayres Boswell and Joan Z. Spade, Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why Are Some Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women?



Egon Mayer, Two Can Make a Revolution.



Adele Bahn and Angela Jaquez, One Style of Dominican Bridal Shower.

4.Sexuality, Intimacy, and the Family.


Francesca M. Cancian, The Feminization of Love.



Kath Weston, Is “Straight” to “Gay” as “Family” Is to “No Family”?

5.Gender Roles, Work, and the Family.


* Arlie Russell Hochschild, There's No Place Like Work.



* In-Sook Lim, Korean Immigrant Women's Challenge to Gender Inequality at Home: The Interplay of Economic Resources, Gender, and Family.



* Maura I. Toro-Morn, Gender, Class, Family, and Migration: Puerto Rican Women in Chicago.

III.GENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.

6.Patterns of Parenthood, Childhood, and Adolescence.


* Patricia Hill Collins, Shifting the Center: Race, Class, and Feminist Theorizing About Motherhood.



* Elaine Bell Kaplan, Black Teenage Mothers and Their Mothers: The Impact of Adolescent Childbearing on Daughters' Relations with Mothers.



* Frances K. Goldscheider and Calvin Goldscheider, Nonfamily Living in Context: Household, the Life Course, and Family Values.

7.The Family and the Elderly.


Florentius Chan, To Be Old and Asian: An Unsettling Life in America.



* Mark Hutter, Intimate Strangers: The Elderly and the Elderly Health Care Giver Relationships.

IV.FAMILIES IN CRISIS AND CHANGE.

8.Family Stress, Crisis, and Violence.


John M. Johnson and Kathleen J. Ferraro, The Victimized Self: The Case of Battered Women.



* Murray A. Straus, Ten Myths That Perpetuate Corporal Punishment.



Steven Vanderstaay, Karla and the Armstrongs: Two Oral Histories of Homeless American Families.

9.Divorce, Remarriage, and the Future of the Family.


* Terry Arendell, The Social Self as Gendered: A Masculinist Discourse of Divorce.



Paul R. Amato, Life-Span Adjustment of Children to Their Parents' Divorce.



* Andrew J. Cherlin and Frank Furstenberg, Jr., Stepfamilies in the United States: A Reconsideration.



* Marvin B. Sussman, Families in Time to Come: Taking a Position on Trends and Issues.

Notes and References.