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Introduction: Analyzing families with a feminist sociological imagination -- I. Family composition : Defining and analyzing families : Redefining families: who's in and who's out? / Martha Minow ; Motherhood under patriarchy / Barbara Katz Rothman ; Family, feminism, and race in America / Maxine Baca Zinn ; Adoption and kinship / Katarina Wegar -- Family structure and accordion households : Household structure and family ideologies: the case of Vietnamese refugees / Nazli Kibria ; Mortality decline in the twentieth century and supply of kin over the life course / Peter Uhlenberg ; Fertility on the frontier: women, contraception, and community / Anita Ilta Garey ; Interpreting the African heritage in Afro-American family organization / Niara Sudarkasa -- II. Families within society : Families and the economy : Time squeeze: the extra month of work / Juliet B. Schor ; Capitalism and gay identity / John D'Emilio ; Bread before roses: American Workingmen, labor unions and the family wage / Martha May ; Race, poverty, and women's aging / Julianne Malveaux ; Affluence and poverty in feeding the family / Marjorie L. DeVault ; Gender, class, family, and migration: Puerto Rican woman in Chicago / Maura I. Toro-Morn ; Children's changing access to resources: a historical perspective / Donald J. Hernandez -- Families and community : The anti-social family / Mich©·le Barrett and Mary McIntosh ; The place of kinfolk in personal community networks / Barry Wellman ; Housewife and gadders: themes of self-sufficiency and community in eighteenth-century New England / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ; Mexican American women grassroots community activities: Mothers of East Los Angeles / Mary Pardo -- III. Web of family relationships : Mothering, motherhood, and mothers : Why women mother / Nancy J. Chodorow ; Chicana/o family structure and gender personality: Chodorow, familism and psychoanalytic sociology revisited / Denise A. Segura and Jennifer L. Pierce ; Catching sense: learning from our mothers to be Black and female / Suzanne C. Carothers ; Jewish lesbian parenting / Linda J. Holzman ; "I am this child's mother": a feminist perspective on mothering with a disability -- Fathering, fatherhood, and fathers : American fathering in historical perspective / Joseph H. Pleck ; Fathers and sons: men's experience and the reproduction of fatherhood / Nicholas W. Townsend ; The culture and conduct of fatherhood / Ralph La Rossa ; "Best case scenarios": fathers, children, and divorce / Terry Arendell -- Kin networks : Kinscripts / Carol B. Stack and Linda M. Burton ; The female world of cards and holidays: women, families, and the work of kinship / Micaela di Leonardo ; Fictive kin, paper sons, and Compadrazgo: women of color and the struggle for family survival / Bonnie Thornton Dill -- On marriage and divorce : The two marriages / Jessie Bernard ; Wives' marital work in a culture of divorce / Karla B. Hackstaff ; Why gay people should seek the right to marry / Thomas B. Stoddard ; Since when is marriage a path to liberation? / Paula L. Ettelbrick ; Love demands everything / Phyllis Burke ; Divorced parents and the Jewish community / Nathalie Friedman

IV. Complexities and contradictions of family bonds : Caregiving : Ideals of care: traditional, postmodern, cold-modern, warm-modern / Arlie Russell Hochschild ; The invisible women: caregiving and AIDS / Nina Glick Schiller ; The ambiguities of social support: adult daughters caring for frail elderly parents / Emily K. Abel ; Masculinity, caregiving, and men's friendship in antebellum New England / Karen B. Hansen ; Revolutionary parenting / bell hooks ; Racial safety and cultural maintenance: the child care concerns of employed mothers of color / Lynet Uttal -- Violence, power, and families : Through a feminist lens: gender, power, and violence / Kersti A. Yll©œ ; Why do men batter their wives? / James Ptacek ; Felicia: working with a teen mother in an abusive relationship / Bonnie Zimmer ; Ten myths that perpetuate corporal punishment / Murray A. Straus ; Child abuse in context: an historian's perspective / John Demos -- V. Labor and family intersections : Mediating work and family : "My mother was much of a woman": slavery / Jacqueline Jones ; Constructing motherhood on the night shift: "Working mothers" as "stay-at-home moms" / Anita Ilta Garey ; Working at motherhood: Chicana and Mexican immigrant mothers and employment / Denise A. Segura ; The dialectics of wage work: Japanese-American women and domestic service, 1905-1940 / Evelyn Nakano Glenn ; The parenting approach to the work-family dilemma / Rosanna Hertz -- Household division of labor : The working wife as urbanizing peasant / Arlie Russell Hochschild with Anne Machung ; Household labor and the routine production of gender / Scott Coltrane ; Children's share in household tasks / Frances K. Goldscheider and Linda J. Waite ; "She helped me hay it as good as a man": relations among women and men in an agricultural community / Grey Osterud -- VI. Social policy and family values : Children as public goods / Nancy Folbre ; The politics of child care in America's public/private welfare state / Sonya Michel ; Claiming all of our bodies: reproductive rights and disability / Anne Finger ; The right family values / Judith Stacey