This engaging collection of essays attempts to do justice to the complexity of contemporary families and to situate them in their economic, historical, and cultural contexts. It includes state-of-the-art research from sociology, history, and anthropology and a provocative analytical introduction that argues families may look very different even to those inside the same family.
Edited with Anita Ilta Garey. Temple University Press, 1998
REVIEWS
“A tour de force of family scholarship.” — Maxine Baca Zinn, Michigan State University
“Astute yet accessible.” — Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering