Public and Private Families: A Reader

( indicates a new reading)PrefacePart One: Introduction Chapter 1: Public and Private Families "The Family in Trouble: Since When? For Whom?" (Steven M. Tipton and John Witte, eds.) "From Role to Self: The Emergence of Androgynous Love in the 20th Century" (Francesca M. Cancian) Chapter 2: The History of the Family "What's Love Got To Do With It? A Brief History of Marriage." (Stephanie Coontz) "Growing Up is Harder To Do" (Frank F. Furstenbrg, Jr. Sheela Kennedy, Vonnie C. McLoyd, Ruben G. Rumbaut, and Richard A. Setterson, Jr.)Part Two: Gender, Class, and Race-Ethnicity Chapter 3: Gender and Families "Doing Gender" (Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman "Fathers and Emotional Responsibility" (Andrea Doucet) Chapter 4: Social Class and Families "Ain't No Middle Class" (Susan Sheehan) "Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black and White Families" (Annette Lareau) Chapter 5: Race, Ethnicity and Families "'I'm here, but I'm There:' The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood" (Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Ernestine Avila) "Breaking the Last Taboo: Interracial Marriage in America" (Zhenchao Qian)Part Three: Sexuality, Partnership, and Marriage Chapter 6: Sexualities "Sexual Desire and Gender" (Pepper Schwartz and Virginia Rutter) "Living Apart Together: A New Family Form" (Irene Levin) Chapter 7: Cohabitation and Marriage "'Everything's There Except Money': How Money Shapes Decisions to Marry Among Cohabitors" (Pamela J. Smock, Wendy D. Manning, and Meredith Porter) "Umarried with Children" (Kathyrn Edin and Maria Kefalas) Chapter 8: Work and Families "The Work-Home Crunch" (Kathleen Gerson and Jerry A. Jacobs) "Joey's Problem: Nancy and Evan Holt" (Arlie Russell Hochschild)Part Four: Links across the Generations Chapter 9: Children and Parents "Religion and Domestication of Men" (Bradford Wilcox) "Gay Parenthood and the Decline of Paternity as We Knew It" (Judith Stacey) Chapter 10: The Elderly and Their Families "Beyond the Nuclear Family: The

Andrew J. Cherlin is Benjamin H. Griswold III Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. He received a B.S. from Yale University in 1970 and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1976. He is the author of the McGraw-Hill textbook, Public and Private Families: An Introduction. His other books include Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage (revised and enlarged edition, 1992), Divided Families: What Happens to Children when Parents Part (with Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., 1991), The Changing American Family and Public Policy (1988), and The New American Grandparent: A Place in the Family, A Life Apart (with Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., 1986). In 1989-1990 he was Chair of the Family Section of the American Sociological Association. In 1999, he was President of the Population Association of America. Professor Cherlin is a recipient of a MERIT (Method to Extend Research in Time) Award from the National Institutes of Health for his research on the effects of family structure on children. His recent articles include "Stepfamilies in the United States: A Reconsideration," in the Annual Review of Sociology; "Going to Extremes: Family Structure, Children's Well-Being, and Social Science," in Demography; "Effects of Parental Divorce on Mental Health throughout the Life Course," in the American Sociological Review; and "I'm OK, You're Selfish," in The New York Times Magazine. He also has written many short articles for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, and other periodicals. He has been interviewed on ABC News Nightline, the Today Show, network evening news programs, National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and other news programs and documentaries.