Families in the U.S.: Kinship and Domestic Politics (Women in the Political Economy) [Paperback]

Karen V. Hansen (Editor), Anita Ilta Garey (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 9, 1998

This engaging collection of essays attempts to do justice to the complexity of contemporary families and to situate them in their economic, political, and cultural contexts. The editors introduce this wide-ranging collection with a provocative analytical introduction, setting the stage with a recognition that families may look very different even to those inside the same family. These cutting-edge scholars explore the ways in which family life is gendered and reflect on the work of maintaining family and kin relationships, especially as social and family power structures change over time. The book includes a guide to topics (from Adoption and African-American Families to Work-Family Tensions and Working-Class Families) that should prove useful to teachers, students, and researchers. Author note: Karen V Hansen, Associate Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University, is the author of "A Very Social Time: Crafting Community in Antebellum New England", and the co-editor (with Ilene J Philipson) of "Women, Class, and the Feminist Imagination: A Socialist-Feminist Reader" (Temple, 1990). Anita Ilta Garey, Assistant Professor of Family Studies at the University of Connecticut, is the author of "Weaving Work and Family: Working Mothers and the Construction of Meaning" (Temple).

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Leading feminist scholars contemplate the complexity of today's American families --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Karen V. Hansen, Associate Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University, is the author of A Very Social Time: Crafting Community in Antebellum New England, and the co-editor (with Ilene J. Philipson) of Women, Class, and the Feminist Imagination: A Socialist-Feminist Reader (Temple, 1990).

Anita Ilta Garey, Assistant Professor of Family Studies at the University of Connecticut, is the author of Weaving Work and Family: Working Mothers and the Construction of Meaning (Temple). --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 888 pages
• Publisher: Temple University Press (March 9, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566395909
• ISBN-13: 978-1566395908
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,252,100 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars From family composition to social policy., September 2, 1998

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This review is from: Families in the U.S.: Kinship and Domestic Politics (Women in the Political Economy) (Paperback)

This is an extraordinarily abundant anthology of resources on a topic as broad as any that could be tackled. Given the wide variety of topics and approaches by the 56 writers, the reviewer especially appreciated the organization of chapters. The non-traditional construction, perhaps women's way of ordering ideas, offered a provocative exploration and encouraged new connections for the reader.

Additionally, the editors provide a seven-page guide to 45 topics, alphabetically arranged, from adoption to working-class families. Researchers interested in class differences, for example, are referred to the eleven chapters which include such in their content. This creates an accessibity to the more than two pound resource