Handbook of Contemporary Families: Considering the Past, Contemplating the Future
Handbook of Contemporary Families: Considering the Past, Contemplating the Future
Editors: Coleman, Marilyn and Ganong, Lawrence H.
Publication Year: 2004
Publisher: SAGE Publications
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$231.00

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$346.50
ISBN: 978-0-7619-2713-6
Category: Social Sciences - Sociology
Image Count:
3
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
The Handbook of Contemporary Families explores how families have changed in the last 30 years and speculates about future trends. Editors Marilyn Coleman and Lawrence H. Ganong, along with a multidisciplinary group of contributors, critique the approaches used to study relationships and families while suggesting modern approaches for the new millennium.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Considering the Past, Contemplating the Future
- 1. Household Diversity: The Starting Point for Healthy Families in the New Century - John Scanzoni
- 2. Alternate Lifestyles Today: Off the Family Studies Screen - Roger H. Rubin
- 3. The Social and Cultural Construction of American Childhood - Steven Mintz
- Part II: Contemporary Couples
- 4. Cohabitation and Family Change - Judith A. Seltzer
- 5. Variations in Marriage over Time: An Ecological/Exchange Perspective - Ronald M. Sabatelli, Karen Ripoll
- 6. Gay Men and Lesbians: The Family Context - Lawrence A. Kurdek
- 7. Ambiguous Constructions: Development of a Childless or Child-Free Life Course - Richard Bulcroft, Jay Teachman
- 8. Intimate Relationships in Later Life: Current Realities, Future Prospects - Teresa M. Cooney, Kathleen Dunne
- Part III: Gender Issues in Contemporary Families
- 9. Jobs, Marriage, and Parenting: Working It Out in Dual-Earner Families - Maureen Perry-Jenkins, Elizabeth Turner
- 10. Gendered Family Relations: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same - Lori A. McGraw, Alexis J. Walker
- 11. Feminist Visions for Transforming Families: Desire and Equality Then and Now - Katherine R. Allen
- Part IV: Raising Children in Contemporary Families
- 12. Encountering Oppositions: A Review of Scholarship about Motherhood - Susan Walzer
- 13. Fathering: Paradoxes, Contradictions, and Dilemmas - Scott Coltrane
- 14. Pathogenic-Conflict Families and Children: What We Know, What We Need to Know - W. Glenn Clingempeel, Eulalee Brand-Clingempeel
- Part V: Changing Family Structures
- 15. Divorce in Social and Historical Context: Changing Scientific Perspectives on Children and Marital Dissolution - Paul R. Amato
- 16. Single-Parent Families: Risks, Resilience, and Change - Michele T. Martin, Robert E. Emery, Tara S. Peris
- 17. Britain’s Changing Families - Graham Allan, Sheila Hawker, Graham Crow
- 18. Stepfamilies: Changes and Challenges - Kay Pasley, Brad S. Moorefield
- Part VI: Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary Families
- 19. Continuing Research on Latino Families: El Pasado y el Futuro - Linda Citlali Halgunseth
- 20. Diversity in African American Families: Trends and Projections - M. Belinda Tucker, Saskia K. Subramanian, Angela D. James
- 21. Asian American Families: Diverse History, Contemporary Trends, and the Future - Masako Ishii-Kuntz
- 22. A “Seven-Generation” Approach to American Indian Families - Walter T. Kawamoto, Tamara C. Cheshire
- 23. Muslim Families in the United States - Bahira Sherif-Trask
- Part VII: Families in Society
- 24. Families and Religious Beliefs, Practices, and Communities: Linkages in a Diverse and Dynamic Cultural Context - David C. Dollahite, Loren D. Marks, Michael A. Goodman
- 25. Family Law for Changing Families in the New Millenium - Mary Ann Mason, Mark A. fine, Sarah Carnochan
- 26. Building Enduring Family Policies in the 21st Century: The Past as Prologue? - Karen Bogenschneider, Tom Corbett
- 27. The Disturbing Paradox of Poverty in American Families: What We Have Learned over the Past Four Decades - Mark R. Rank
- Part VIII: Technology and Contemporary Families
- 28. Brave New Families: Modern Health Technologies and Family Creation - Dianne M. Bartels
- 29. Understanding the Effects of the Internet on Family Life - Robert Hughes, Jr., Jason D. Hans
- Part IX: Working with Contemporary Families
- 30. Family Therapy’s Response to Family Diversity: Looking Back, Looking Forward - Leigh A. Leslie, Goldie Morton
- 31. Contemporary Family Life Education: Thirty Years of Challenge and Progress - Deborah B. Gentry
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors