Public and Private Families

Public and Private Families: A Reader Part One: Introduction 1. Public and Private Families Sara McLanahan and Lynne Casper, 'Growing Diversity and Inequality in the American Family' Alan Wolfe, 'The Culture War Within' 2. The History of the Family Elaine Tyler May, 'Cold War, Warm Hearth' Steve Mintz, 'From Patriarchy to Androgeny and Other Myths: Placing Men's Family Roles in Historical Perspective' 3. Gender and Families Jessie Bernard, 'The Good-Provider Role--Its Rise and Fall' Marjorie DeVault, 'Feeding as Women's Work' Part Two: Race, Ethnicity, Class, and the State 4. Class Susan Sheehan, 'Ain't No Middle Class' Mary Patillo-McCoy, 'The Black Middle Class' 5. Race and Ethnicity Katherine S. Newman, 'Family Values' Lillian B. Rubin, 'Families on the Fault Line' 6. Family and the State Andrew J. Cherlin, 'How Is the 1996 Welfare Reform Law Affect Poor Families?' Paula England and Nancy Folbre, 'Who Should Pay for the Kids?' Part Three: Sexuality, Partnership, and Marriage 7. Sexuality and Love Robert T. Michael, John H. Gagnon, Edward O. Laumann, and Gina Kolata, 'Sex and Society' Pepper Schwartz and Virginia Rutter, 'Sexual Desire and Gender' 8. Family Formation Ellen K. Rothman, 'In Our Own Time, 1920-1980' Kristin Luker, 'Dubious Conceptions: The War over Teen Pregnancy' 9. Spouses and Partners Francesca M. Cancian, 'From Role to Self: The Emergence of Androgynous Love in the 20th Century' Jay Belsky and John Kelly, 'The His and Hers Transition' Part Four: Power, Conflict, and Disruption 10.Work and Families Andrew J. Cherlin, 'The Transformation of Motherhood' Arlie Hochschild, 'Joey's Problem: Nancy and Evan Holt' 11. Domestic Violence Kersti A. Yllo, 'Through a Feminist Lens: Gender, Power, and Violence' Douglas J. Besharov with Lisa A. Laumann, 'Don't Call It Child Abuse If It's Really Poverty' 12. Divorce Eleanor E. Maccoby and Robert H. Mnookin, 'The Parental Divorce: Coparenting Before and After Separation' Terry Arendell, 'Downward Mobility' 13.

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, Childrens Well-Being, and Social Science, in Demography; Effects of Parental Divorce on Mental Health throughout the Life Course, in the American Sociological Review; and Im OK, Youre 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.