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Title American families / edited by Elizabeth Douvan, Helen Weingarten, Jane L. Scheiber ; [cover photo by Bob Coyle].

Imprint Dubuque, Iowa : Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., ©1980.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.8 A512A    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 480, [61] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note "A Courses by Newspaper reader."
Includes A study guide for American families in transition, by H. Weingarten.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-480).
Contents Saving the Family / Kenneth L. Woodward, Mary Lord, Frank Maier, Donna M. Foote, and Phyllis Malamud -- The Intimate Environment / Arlene Skolnick -- Life in Appalachia / Robert Coles -- Family Types / David Kantor and William Lehr -- The Family and Social Change -- Family Time and Historical Time / Tamara K. Hareven -- Stability of the Family in a Transient Society / Niles Newton -- The Significance of Family Membership / Barbara Laslett -- The Meaning of Family in the Past -- The Purchase of Brides / The Virginia company in London -- The American Family in Past Time / John Demos -- America's Immigrant Women / Cecyle S. Neidle -- Genteel Backlash / Richard Sennett -- Post-Industrial Society and the Family -- Some Effects of Transience / Philip Slater -- The Family and Morality / Christopher Lasch -- The Family Out of Favor / Michael Novak.
The Psychological Revolution -- The Brutality of Modern Families / Richard Sennett -- The Weakened Executive / Kenneth Keniston -- Women and Children First / Philip Slater -- The Mirages of Marriage / William J. Lederer and Don D. Jackson -- The Sexual Revolution -- Motherhood: Who Needs It? / Betty Rollin -- Untying the Family / Bruno Bettelheim -- Sex Outside Marriage / Carol Tavris -- The Affair / Morton Hunt -- Dilemmas of Sex / Jean Lipman-Blumen.
The Feminist Revolution -- Changing Family Life Styles: One Role, Two Roles, Shared Roles / Jessie Bernard -- Feminists Against the Family / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Feminism and the Family / Ellen Goodman -- On Reinventing Womanhood / Carolyn G. Heilbrun -- Functions and Forms of Family Life -- Public Imgines, Private Realities: The American Family in Popular Culture / Arlene Skolnick -- The Institutionalized Family / Amitai Etzioni -- Work and Family in the United States / Rosabeth Moss Kanter -- 'Til Business Do Us Part? -- E. Jerry Walker.
From Infancy to Old Age: Family Stages -- Shall I Go Back to Work? / Claudia Dreifus -- What Happens to Parents? -- Elizabeth Douvan -- Women of a Certain Age / Lillian B. Rubin -- Families in Later Life / Lillian E. Troll, Sheila J. Miller, Robert C. Atchley -- The Changing American Grandparent / Bernice L. Neugarten and Karol L. Weinstein -- The Child in the Family -- Colonial Laws Regarding Children -- U.S. Children Give Families High Marks / Science News -- Raising Black Children / Andrew Billingsley -- Choosing Child Care: Many Options/ Mary Rowe -- Communal Education: The Case of the Kibbutz / Bruno Bettelheim.
Varieties of Family Patterns -- Black Families in White America / Andrew Billingsley -- Black Families: An Exchange / Nathan Glazer and Herbert Gutman -- The Urban Villagers / Herbert J. Gans -- Worlds of Pain / Lillian B. Rubin.
Children and Divorce / Judith S. Wallerstein and Joan B. Kelly -- Remarriage / Jessie Bernard -- Confusions of a Middle-Class Husband / S.M. Miller -- New Family Forms -- Interdependence / Kathy Weingarten -- Female-Headed Families / Esther Wattenberg and Hazel Reinhardt -- Man as Mother / Robert Miner -- Marriage in Two Steps / Margaret Mead -- Child Rearing in Communes / Bennett M. Berger, Bruce M. Hackett, R. Mervyn Millar -- Family Services and Public Policy -- Services Families Need / Kenneth Keniston -- Interpersonal Comparison Tests / William J. Lederer and Don D. Jackson -- The urgent Drive to Make Good Marriages Better / Joanne Koch and Lew Koch -- Swedish Family Policy / Lillemor Melsted -- Families / Jane Howard -- Divorce and the Survival of the Family / Judith Bardwick -- Does the Family Have a Future? / Suzanne Keller.
Subject Families -- United States.
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Added Author Douvan, Elizabeth, 1925-2002.
Weingarten, Helen.
Scheiber, Jane L.
Courses by Newspaper (Project)
ISBN 0840322151 (pbk.)
9780840322159 (pbk.)
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