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The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family 1st Edition

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In the controversial public debate over modern American families, the vast changes in family life--the rise of single, two-paycheck, and same-sex parents--have often been blamed for declining morality and unhappy children. Drawing upon pioneering research with the children of the gender revolution, Kathleen Gerson reveals that it is not a lack of "family values," but rigid social and economic forces that make it difficult to have a vibrant and committed family and work life.

Despite the entrance of women into the workforce and the blurring of once clearly defined gender boundaries, men and women live in a world where the demands of balancing parenting and work, autonomy and commitment, time and money are left largely unresolved. Gerson finds that while an overwhelming majority of young men and women see an egalitarian balance within committed relationships as the ideal, today's social and economic realities remain based on conventional--and now obsolete--distinctions between breadwinning and caretaking. In this equity vacuum, men and women develop conflicting strategies, with women stressing self-reliance and men seeking a new traditionalism.

With compassion for all perspectives, Gerson argues that whether one decides to give in to traditionally imbalanced relationships or to avoid marriage altogether, these approaches are second-best responses, not personal preferences or inherent attributes, and they will shift if new options can be created to help people achieve their egalitarian aspirations. The Unfinished Revolution offers clear recommendations for the kinds of workplace and community changes that would best bring about a more egalitarian family life--a new flexibility at work and at home that benefits families, encourages a thriving economy, and helps women and men integrate love and work.

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"Over the past three decades, social change has blown apart the old-fashioned ideal of the nuclear family--and Gerson has set out to map where the pieces have landed."
--New York Post

"Valuable for the abundance and candor of the testimony from this unmoored generation pioneering through radically altered conceptions of personal and professional life."
--Publishers Weekly

"This is not a battle that can be won with legal challenges or legislation. Yes, it would undoubtedly be greatly aided by the passage of major social policies such as universal child care. But at its core, this is a fight that plays out within homes and between partners. And as Gerson's research makes clear, the fight has not changed all that dramatically in the past 30 years." --The American Prospect

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"Preachers, pundits, and politicians blather endlessly about family values, traditional marriage, and child-rearing, but no one with real authority has asked the kids themselves what works best-until now. The brilliant social scientist Kathleen Gerson revolutionizes a stale debate with her breakthrough research on how adult children view their upbringing and what that means for their futures-and ours. Gerson provides definitive evidence that families with flexible gender strategies meet social and economic challenges far better than those with rigid gender roles, who are often unable to sustain secure homes when confronted by financial or marital crises." --Leslie Bennetts, author of The Feminine Mistake

"Gerson's Unfinished Revolution is the most important book on issues of work and family balance since Hochschild's Second Shift. Vividly portraying how family change has impacted the hopes, dreams, and possibilities for future generations, this book effectively transforms the terms of the debate on the American family today." --Sharon Hays, Barbra Streisand Professor in Contemporary Gender Studies and Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California

"Kathleen Gerson's Unfinished Revolution is an elegant and powerful account of the gender and family revolution that has transformed our society and politics, viewed through the young adults who have lived through these transforming decades. While politics seeks to freeze and distort and polarize the change, Gerson shows a textured, flexible, uncertain and shifting reality that challenges all our assumptions. Her book helps us understand this Obama generation, tolerant of the diverse choices now facing men and women and families and hoping politics can transcend old formulas and lines." --Stanley Greenberg, author of The Two Americas

"A compassionate, insightful study of how young men and women struggle to reconcile their desires for partnered commitment and personal autonomy with the realities of today's work and family trends. Gerson shows us why most, despite ambivalence and stress, do not want to return to the family patterns of the past--and suggests how we can help them move forward." --Stephanie Coontz, author of Marriage, a History

"The third installment in a classic trilogy exploring the changing relations between work, family, and gender, The Unfinished Revolution vividly examines the interaction between social structure, biography, and history. Gerson's analysis is theoretically sophisticated and remarkably complex. Most significant, she finds that 'traditional' families do not necessarily provide children with a better environment than single-parent or dual-earner ones, and that the most important feature of successful families appears to be their ability to cope with change in a flexible manner."--Eviatar Zerubavel, Board of Governors Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University

"Following her earlier pathbreaking studies of gender, Kathleen Gerson now takes us into an illuminating exploration of the 'children of the gender revolution.' A virtuoso interviewer, Gerson discovers young women and men struggling to reconcile their ideals of flexible and egalitarian intimate relations with persistent structural and cultural constraints. With style and brio The Unfinished Revolution offers revealing and often surprising insights into the present and future of American families." --Viviana A. Zelizer, Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology, Princeton University

"This is not a battle that can be won with legal challenges or legislation. Yes, it would undoubtedly be greatly aided by the passage of major social policies such as universal child care. But at its core , this is a fight that plays out within homes and between partners. And as Gerson's research makes clear, the fight has not changed all that dramatically in the past 30 years." --The American Prospect

"A new powerful account of how children of the gender revolution are reshaping family, work and gender in America.... Gerson revolutionizes a stale debate looking at family changes in an unconventional way.... A very fascinating book."--Sociologica

"Kathleen Gerson's Unfinished Revolution marks a major conceptual advance by depicting families as pathways, rather than static structural forms."--Contemporary Sociology

"Carefully researched and lucidly written.... An important contribution to the intertwined research literatures on family, work, and gender. Written in an elegant and accessible style, with extensive use of interview quoations, the book is appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate courses."--Gender and Society

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A timely study based on groundbreaking research that explodes popular myths about rising gender wars, declining families, and apathetic youth.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; 1st edition (May 6, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199783322
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199783328
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.7 inches

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Kathleen Gerson is Professor of Sociology and Collegiate Professor of Arts & Science at New York University. The recipient of numerous honorary awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, she is considered an authority on the intertwined revolutions in gender, work, and private life now unfolding in the United States and across the globalizing world. Her work draws on depth interviewing and other research techniques to uncover the ways changing institutions intersect with personal biographies to shape the contours of large-scale social change. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including "The Science and Art of Interviewing" and “The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family." Currently at work on a book tracing the emerging forms of work and caregiving in the new economy, Kathleen regularly contributes to printed and broadcast media, including The New York Times, CNN, NPR, and others. She has served as President of Sociologists for Women in Society and the Eastern Sociological Society and as Vice President of the American Sociological Association. To find out more, visit www.KathleenGerson.com.

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Another great book by Kathleen Gerson! In her exploration of work, family, gender change among young adults, she concludes with two major findings. First, the families that are the most successful are those that are the most flexible. Rather than adhering to rigid gender roles, these families are able to adjust behaviors based on their families' particular circumstances, which are bound to change over the life course. Second, she finds that the majority of respondents (age 18-31) desire an egalitarian relationship, but that they are circumspect about their chances of actually being able to live their desires. They understand that competing demands from an inflexible work place and home make this prospect extremely difficult. So they settle for second best. Gerson breaks down how women and men come to conclusions about what is second best and why this differs by gender. These are big findings on a subject that tends to be driven more by ideology than by empirical evidence! This book is worth a read in order to understand how young men and women understand and react to the social factors that continue to make egalitarian relationships out of reach for most families. It is well-written and the interviews are enlightening for anyone interested in learning about how men and women make decisions about family life.

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Kathleen Gerson's The Unfinished Revolution is itself a revolution in the study of families, work and gender. Beautifully written and deeply insightful, The Unfinished Revolution serves as an exemplar of what meticulously designed qualitative social science can achieve. The third in what is now a trilogy of books about family, work and gender, The Unfinished Revolution should be considered equal to her earlier classics--books that have transformed family research.

Gerson turns on its head the debate about which family form--traditional, dual-earner or single-parent--is best for children. Instead of examining family forms, Gerson investigates how families cope with change, finding that the most successful families, traditional, single-parent and dual-earner alike, are flexible in their response to change. This, in itself, is a significant departure from prior research and represents an important theoretical breakthrough in a contentious political and sociological debate. But Gerson does not stop here. Instead, in the second half of the book, she examines how young adults, "the children of the gender revolution," reconcile their hopes for more egalitarian relationships with the realities of inflexible institutions. While most hoped for egalitarian relationships, they also expected these goals to be unattainable and created gendered fallback positions, in which men were more likely to pursue a neo-traditional approach to forming families while women were more likely to seek autonomy if egalitarian relationships could not be found.

Like her prior work, this book will inform debates on families, work and gender for years to come. I recommend it highly to all those interested in family, work and gender.

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Interesting read that provided insight into many questions that I have had about this generations views on marriage and family. Highlighted their lack of trust in government and public support in the family policy arena, and the need for collective action to bring about change. This was an especially interesting perspective, since many of the participants in the study also see the need for family leave (maternal and paternal).

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Read this for my Sociology class, and it was quite a cool read. Pretty informative - and I would recommend it. :)

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Used this book as a supplemental reading for an college, upper level Marriage and Family course. Students responded well to it and found it to be an easy read.

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