Families and Society : Classic and Contemporary Readings (with Infotrac) [With Infotrac]

Preface viii Introduction 1(6) Defining Family 7(30) The Family: Its Structure and Functions 13(9) Rose Laub Coser The Standard North American Family as an Ideological Code 22(9) Dorothy Smith The Simpsons: Atomistic Politics and the Nuclear Family 31(6) Paul Cantor Sex and Romance 37(44) Jealousy and Sexual Property: An Illustration 45(8) Kingsley Davis An All Consuming Love 53(9) Eva Illouz Gender and Courtship Entitlement: Responses to Personal Ads 62(11) Erich Goode Teenage Sexuality 73(8) Pepper Schwartz Virginia Rutter Marriage and Cohabitation 81(46) Marriage 89(5) Harriet Martineau Cohabitation in the United States 94(10) Pamela Smock The Future of Marriage 104(13) Stephanie Coontz Do Wedding Dresses Come in Lavender? The Prospects and Implications of Same-Sex Marriage 117(10) Angela Bolte Reproduction, Birth, and Babies 127(40) Social Devices for Impelling Women to Bear and Rear Children 133(7) Leta Hollingworth Mothers Giving Birth to Motherhood 140(12) John Gillis Parental Consciousness and Gender 152(10) Susan Walzer Daddy Plants a Seed: Personhood Under Patriarchy 162(5) Barbara Katz Rothman Childhood Socialization 167(32) Sex and Temperament 173(7) Margaret Mead Childhood 180(9) Betty Farrell Boys and Men in Families 189(10) Michele Adams Scott Coltrane Motherhood 199(36) Motherhood 209(3) Elizabeth Cady Stanton Fictive Kin, Paper Sons, and Compadrazgo 212(12) Bonnie Thorton Dill The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood 224(11) Pierrette Hondagneu Sotelo Ernestine Avila Fatherhood 235(36) The Good-Provider Role: Its Rise and Fall 243(9) Jessie Bernard Marriage, Work and Fatherhood in Men's Lives 252(9) Nicholas Townsend A Christian Quest for Manhood 261(10) Susan Faludi Families and Work 271(38) The Effects of Social Class on Parental Values 281(9) Melvin Kohn Families on the Fault Line 290(7) Lillian Rubin Equality Works 297(6) Francine Deutsch The Political Economy of Constructing Family 303(6) Christopher Carrington Divorce 309(34) Early Essays on Marriage and Divorce 317(4) John Stuart Mill Wives' Marital Work in a Culture of Divorce 321(12) Karla Hackstaff How Marriages End 333(10) Demie Kurz Diversity in Family Forms 343(48) Remarriage 349(6) Jessie Bernard Research on Stepparenting Families 355(10) Jeanne Brooks-Gunn Single Parent Families 365(12) Stephen D. Sugarman Adoptive Families in the United States 377(14) Christine Ward Gailey Family Violence 391(32) The Man-Made Family 399(3) Charlotte Perkins Gilman Basic Facts about Battering: Myths vs. Realities 402(12) Neil Jacobson John Gottman Ten Myths That Perpetuate Corporal Punishment 414(9) Murray Straus Families over the Life Course 423(36) The Sociology of Parent-Youth Conflict 429(9) Kingsley Davis ``The Normal American Family'' as an Interpretive Structure of Family Life among Grown Children of Korean and Vietnamese Immigrants 438(13) Karen Pyke Extending the Family 451(8) John Logan Glenna Spitze Family Policy 459(56) Defining Family Policy 467(14) Nancy Hooyman Judith Gonyea Work, the Family, and Welfare 481(9) Sharon Hays Public Policy and Family and Child Well-Being 490(11) Sandra Hofferth Deborah Phillips Natasha Cabrera Creating a Caring Society 501(14) Evelyn Nakano Glenn Glossary 515