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100 1 $aZinn, Maxine Baca,$d1942-
245 10 $aDiversity in American families /$cMaxine Baca Zinn, D. Stanley Eitzen.
260 $aNew York :$bHarper & Row,$c℗♭1987.
300 $axv, 474 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 429-463) and index.
530 $aAlso issued online.
505 0 $a1. Images, ideals, and myths -- A. Images and ideals -- Family as haven -- Family as fulfillment -- Family as encumbrance -- B. The mythical American family -- The myth of a stable and harmonious family of the past -- The myth of separate worlds -- The myth of the monolithic family form -- The myth of an undifferentiated family experience -- The myth of family consensus -- 2. Families of the past and the emergence of the modern family -- A. Family and the new social history -- B. The traditional view and its flaws -- C. Family life in Colonial America -- Economy, family, and society -- Family structure and household composition -- D. The emergence of modern family life -- Economy, family, and society -- Industrialization and family diversity -- 3. The effects of industrialization, immigration, and colonization on families -- A. Industrialization, urbanization, and family life -- The traditional view and its shortcomings -- Economy, family, and society -- B. Immigration and family life -- The traditional view and its shortcomings -- Industrial work and family -- C. Racial control and family life -- Traditional views and their shortcomings -- The immigrant analogy and scholarship about families of color -- Revised perspectives -- Black families in slavery and freedom -- Chicano families in the Southwest -- 4. Contemporary families in social context -- A. The economy -- Capitalism -- The structural transformation of the economy -- B. Population dynamics -- The distribution of population by age -- Migration and immigration -- C. Public policy and families -- Governmental decisions affecting families -- The contemporary clash of ideologies in the public sphere: The politics of the family -- 5. Structures of inequality and family life -- A. Class -- Social class in American society -- The cultural approach -- The structural approach -- B. Race -- Race and inequality -- The cultural approach -- Structural conditions and family life: Blacks -- Structural conditions and family life: Chicanos -- C. Gender -- The sex-gender system -- The traditional sex roles approach -- The structural approach -- 6. Intimacy, sexuality, and love -- A. Intimacy in social context -- B. Courtship and mate selection -- Variations in courtship practices by gender, social class, and race -- Factors in mate selection -- C. Changing sexual behavior -- The sexual revolution -- The new sexual conservatism -- D. Differentiated forms of intimacy -- Gendered love and sex -- Social class and intimacy -- Race and intimacy -- 7. Contemporary marriages -- A. Recent trends -- Age at first marriage -- Family size and child spacing -- Wives in the labor force -- Divorce -- Females as single parents -- Remarriage -- Black-white differences -- B. Gender: His and her marriages -- Traditional "his" and "her" marriages -- Gendered labor in the household -- C. Work and marriage -- Blue-collar work and marriage -- Dual-earner marriage: the dominant pattern -- The wife as sole provider -- D. Power and decision making in marriage -- Class -- Race and ethnicity -- E. The quality of married life.
505 0 $a8. Parents and children -- A. Demographic patterns -- Fertility -- Voluntary childlessness -- Delayed childbearing -- Household composition -- B. The impact of children on marriage -- The benefits of parenthood -- The costs of parenthood -- Children and structural changes -- C. The impact of parents on children -- The omnipotent-parents model -- An alternative model: the structure of the family embedded in a larger network of influences -- D. Parents and children in dual-earner families -- Social supports for working parents -- E. Single parents and their children -- 9. Violence in American families -- A. Families in a violent society -- Violence in American society -- Family organization and violence -- B. Spouse abuse -- Incidence of wife abuse -- Why does the victim remain in the abusive situation? -- C. Child abuse and neglect -- Definition -- Incidence -- Causes -- Consequences -- D. Incest -- Incidence -- Consequences -- E. Battered elders -- Frequency and nature of elder abuse -- The causes of elder abuse -- 10. Divorce and remarriage -- A. Divorce rates -- Divorce trends -- The correlates of divorce -- B. Predicting the divorce rate: Up or down? -- The prediction of a declining divorce rate -- The prediction of a rising divorce rate -- C. The consequences of divorce -- "His" and "her" divorce -- Children and divorce -- D. Remarriage after divorce -- Statistical facts about remarriage -- The uniqueness of remarriage -- 11. Nontraditional family forms -- A. Single life -- The singles population -- SIngle life and gender -- Race and singles -- Lifestyles of singles -- B. Heterosexual cohabitation -- Social class, age, and race -- The rise of cohabitation -- Cohabitation and traditional courtship -- Cohabitation compared with marriage -- Gender -- Cohabitation and the future of marriage -- C. Homosexual cohabitation -- Gender -- D. Commuter marriages -- Gender -- 12. Families in the future -- A. Diversity among contemporary American families -- B. Social forces affecting families in the year 2000 -- The economy -- The polity -- Demographics -- Technological changes -- World conditions -- C. Three probable consequences of present trends for families in the near future -- The decline of affluence -- The increasing gap between the "haves" and the "have nots" -- The gender battleground -- D. The probable shapes of future families.
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700 1 $aEitzen, D. Stanley.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aZinn, Maxine Baca, 1942-$tDiversity in American families.$dNew York : Harper & Row, ℗♭1987$w(OCoLC)557587644
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