Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Fox, Bonnie, 1948-

Description

1. xi, 370 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

1. This book offers a collection of articles that together develop a systematic understanding of family. Some examine cross-cultural and historical variations of family patterns, in order to highlight the social organization of things that otherwise seem "natural." The bulk of articles focus on the social relations of sexuality and intimacy, reproduction, parenting and living together. Because these relations are typically gender relations, a concern about gender inequality is constant throughout the book. Nearly three dozen scholars have contributed to this collection, and while most of the articles were previously published, several are new.

Subject

1. Families
2. Sex role
3. Famille
4. Rôle selon le sexe

Contents

1. The unnatural family / Felicity Edholm -- Is there a family? : new anthropological views / Jane Collier, Michelle Z. Rosaldo, Sylvia Yanagisako -- Conceptualizing "family" / Bonnie J. Fox and Meg Luxton -- !Kung women : contrasts in sexual egalitarianism in foraging and sedentary contexts / Patricia Draper -- Women in an egalitarian society : the Montagnais-Naskapi of Canada / Eleanor Leacock -- The family economy in modern England and France / Louise Tilly and Joan Scott -- The fragmented family : family strategies in the face of death, illness, and poverty, Montreal, 1860-1885 / Bettina Bradbury -- Pigs, cows, and boarders : non-wage forms of survival among Montreal families, 1861-1891 / Bettina Bradbury -- Domesticity / Nancy Cott -- Putting mothers on the pedestal / Maxine Margolis -- Bread before roses : American workingmen, labour unions, and the family wage / Martha May -- The rise and fall of the breadwinner-homemaker family / Bonnie J. Fox -- The reproduction of family life : perspectives of male and female adolescents / Jane Gaskell -- The more things change... : an update on Gaskell's findings / Lorna Irwin and Penni Stewart -- Commitment and the cultural mandate : woman in medicine / Patricia Bourne and Norma Wikler.
2. Heterosexuality : contested ground / Marianna Valverde -- Heterosexual sex : power and desire for the Other / Wendy Hollway -- Gender politics : love and power in the private and public spheres / Francesca Cancian -- Desperately seeking babies : new technologies of hope and despair / Rona Achilles -- Childbirth as culture, experience, and politics / Shelly Romalis -- Motherwork, stress, and depression : the costs of privatized social reproduction / Harriet Rosenberg -- The acceptance of the concept of the maternal role by behavioural scientists : its effect on women / Rochelle Paul Wortis -- The good father : reconstructing fatherhood / Lynne Segal -- The politics of family and immigration in the subordination of domestic workers in Canada / Sedef Arat-Koc -- Violence against wives / R. Emerson Dobash and Russell Dobash -- Child battery / Susan G. Cole -- In whose best interest? : the politics of joint custody / Janice Drakich -- The demise of domesticity in America / Alice Kessler-Harris and Karen Brodkin Sacks -- Pathbreakers : some unconventional families of the 90's / Bonnie J. Fox and Doreen Fumia.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain