* denotes selections new to this edition.
Preface. General Introduction. I. MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVES.
1. The Changing Family: History and Politics. Where Are the Good Old Days?-Stephanie Coontz.
Immigrant Families in the City-Mark Hutter.
Interpreting the African Heritage in Afro-American Family Organization-Niara Sudarkasa.
Setting the Clock Forward or Back? Covenant Marriage and the Divorce Revolution-Laura Sanchez, Steven L. Nock, James D. Wright, and Constance T. Gager.*
2. The Family, Kinship, and the Community. The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship-Micaela di Leonardo.
Mexican American Women Grassroots Community Activists: The Mothers of East Los Angeles-Mary Pardo.
Muscogee Women's Identity Development-Barbara B. Kawulich.*
Long Distance Community in the Network Society: Contact and Support Beyond Netville-Keith N. Hampton and Barry Wellman.*
II. GENDER RELATIONS: INEQUALITY, SEXUALITY, AND INTIMACY.
3. Premarital and Mate Selection Relationships. Dating on the Net: Teens and the Rise of Pure Relationships-Lynn Schofield Clark.*
Getting a Man or Getting Ahead-Alexandra Berkowitz and Irene Padavic.*
Asian Indian Marriages-Arranged, Semi-Arranged, or Based on Love-Johanna Lessinger.*
You Go 'Cause You Have to: The Bridal Shower as a Ritual of Obligation-Beth Montemurro.*
4. Sexuality, Intimacy, and the Family. The Feminization of Love-Francesca M. Cancian.
That's Our Kind of Constellation Lesbian Mothers Negotiate Institutionalized Understandings of Gender within the Family-Susan E. Dalton and Denise D. Bielby.*
Islamic Family Ideals and Their Relevance to American Muslim Families-Bahira Sherif.*
5. Gender Roles, Work and the Family. There's No Place Like Work-Arlie Russell Hochschild.
Gender, Class, Family, and Migration: Puerto Rican Women in Chicago-Maura I. Toro-Morn.
Baseball Wives: Gender and the Work of Baseball-George Gmelch and Patricia Mary San Antonio.*
III. GENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.
6. Patterns of Parenthood, Childhood, and Adolescence. Single Mothers by Choice-Valerie S. Mannis.*
Shifting the Center: Race, Class, and Feminist Theorizing About Motherhood-Patricia Hill Collins.
Black Teenage Mothers and their Mothers: The Impact of Adolescent Childbearing Daughters' Relations with Mothers-Elaine Bell Kaplan.
The Changing Culture of Fatherhood in Comic-Strip Families: A Six-Decade Analysis-Ralph LaRossa, Charles Jaret, Malati Gadgil, and G. Robert Wynn.*
Nonfamily Living in Context: Household, the Life Course, and Family Values-Frances K. Goldscheider and Calvin Goldscheider.
7. The Family and the Elderly. To Be Old and Asian: An Unsettling Life in America-Florentius Chan.
Intimate Strangers: The Elderly and the Elderly Health Care Giver Relationships-Mark Hutter.
The Normal American Family as an Interpretive Structure of Family Life Among Grown Children of Korean and Vietnamese Immigrants-Karen Pyke.*
IV. Families in Crisis and Change.
8. Family Stress, Crisis, and Violence. The Batterer's View of the Self and Others in Domestic Violence-Sarah Goodrum, Debra Umberson, and Kristin L. Anderson.*
Ten Myths That Perpetuate Corporal Punishment-Murray A. Straus.
Karla and the Armstrongs: Two Oral Histories of Homeless American Families-Steven Vanderstaay.
9. Divorce, Remarriage, and the Future of the Family. Divorce Culture: A Quest for Relational Equality in Marriage-Karla B. Hackstaff.*
Rethinking Relationships Between Divorced Mothers and Their Children: Capitalizing on Family Strengths-Joyce A. Arditti.*
The Social Self as Gendered: A Masculinist Discourse of Divorce-Terry Arendell.
Divorce and Fatherhood-Erma Jean Lawson and Aaron Thompson.*
Stepparents: De Facto Parents or Legal Strangers-Mary Ann Mason, Sydney Harrison-Jay, Gloria Messick Svare and Nicholas H. Wolfinger.*
Family Law in the New Millennium: For Whose Families?-Mary Ann Mason, Mark A. Fine, and Sarah Carnochan.*
