Families in the U. S. : Kinship and Domestic Politics Book

	Preface
	Introduction: Analyzing Families with a Feminist Sociological Imagination
	Organization of the Book
	Guide to Topics
1	Redefining Families: Who's In and Who's Out?	7
2	Motherhood Under Patriarchy	21
3	Family, Feminism, and Race in America	33
4	Adoption and Kinship	41
5	Household Structure and Family Ideologies: The Case of Vietnamese Refugees	55
6	Mortality Decline in the Twentieth Century and Supply of Kin over the Life Course	69
7	Fertility on the Frontier: Women, Contraception, and Community	79
8	Interpreting the African Heritage in Afro-American Family Organization	91
9	Time Squeeze: The Extra Month of Work	113
10	Capitalism and Gay Identity	131
11	Bread Before Roses: American Workingmen, Labor Unions, and the Family Wage	143
12	Race, Poverty, and Women's Aging	157
13	Affluence and Poverty in Feeding the Family	171
14	Gender, Class, Family, and Migration: Puerto Rican Women in Chicago	189
15	Children's Changing Access to Resources: A Historical Perspective	201
16	The Anti-Social Family	219
17	The Place of Kinfolk in Personal Community Networks	231
18	Housewife and Gadder: Themes of Self-Sufficiency and Community in Eighteenth-Century New England	241
19	Mexican American Women Grassroots Community Activists: Mothers of East Los Angeles	251
20	Why Women Mother	271
21	Chicana/o Family Structure and Gender Personality: Chodorow, Familism, and Psychoanalytic Sociology Revisited	295
22	Catching Sense: Learning from Our Mothers to Be Black and Female	315
23	Jewish Lesbian Parenting	329
24	Native American Mother	335
25	"I Am This Child's Mother": A Feminist Perspective on Mothering with a Disability	339
26	American Fathering in Historical Perspective	351
27	Fathers and Sons: Men's Experience and the Reproduction of Fatherhood	363
28	The Culture and Conduct of Fatherhood	377
29	"Best Case Scenarios": Fathers, Children, and Divorce	387
30	Kinscripts	405
31	The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship	419
32	Fictive Kin, Paper Sons, and Compadrazgo: Women of Color and the Struggle for Family Survival	431
33	The Two Marriages	449
34	Wives' Marital Work in a Culture of Divorce	459
35	Why Gay People Should Seek the Right to Marry	475
36	Since When Is Marriage a Path to Liberation?	481
37	Love Demands Everything	487
38	Divorced Parents and the Jewish Community	495
39	Ideals of Care: Traditional, Postmodern, Cold-Modern, and Warm-Modern	527
40	The Invisible Women: Caregiving and AIDS	539
41	The Ambiguities of Social Support: Adult Daughters Caring for Frail Elderly Parents	557
42	Masculinity, Caregiving, and Men's Friendship in Antebellum New England	575
43	Revolutionary Parenting	587
44	Racial Safety and Cultural Maintenance: The Child Care Concerns of Employed Mothers of Color	597
45	Through a Feminist Lens: Gender, Power, and Violence	609
46	Why Do Men Batter Their Wives?	619
47	Felicia: Working with a Teen Mother in an Abusive Relationship	635
48	Ten Myths That Perpetuate Corporal Punishment	641
49	Child Abuse in Context: An Historian's Perspective	651
50	"My Mother Was Much of a Woman": Slavery	677
51	Constructing Motherhood on the Night Shift: "Working Mothers" as "Stay-at-Home Moms"	709
52	Working at Motherhood: Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Mothers and Employment	727
53	The Dialectics of Wage Work: Japanese-American Women and Domestic Service, 1905-1940	745
54	The Parenting Approach to the Work-Family Dilemma	767
55	The Working Wife as Urbanizing Peasant	779
56	Household Labor and the Routine Production of Gender	791
57	Children's Share in Household Tasks	809
58	"She Helped Me Hay It as Good as a Man": Relations Among Women and Men in an Agricultural Community	818
59	Children as Public Goods	831
60	The Politics of Child Care in America's Public/Private Welfare State	837
61	Claiming All of Our Bodies: Reproductive Rights and Disability	849
62	The Right Family Values	859
	Contributors	881