Designing families : the search for self and community in the information age / / John Scanzoni

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811227003321
• Autore: Scanzoni John H. <1935->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Thousand Oaks, CA, : Pine Forge Press, c2000
• ISBN: 1-4522-2923-6; 0-7619-8683-9; 1-4522-6261-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxi, 263 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.85
• Soggetti: Families; Marriage; Sex role; Communities
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-254) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 - New Families-New Ideas; The Information Age; Six Principles for a New Family Policy; Repairing Damaged Solidarities; Self and Community; Women's Interests; Empowerment: Personal and Political; Dialogue; Positive Welfare; Manufactured Risk; Confronting Violence; Conclusion; Part I - Designing Families Past and Present; Chapter 2 - An Unfinished Revolution: The 1940s Nonconnected Family Style; A Foot in Each of Two Family Styles; The Connected Family Style; The Freedom to Love; The Nonconnected Family Style; The Industrial Revolution; The American Dream and Kin SupportUnique Constraints on African Americans; Fictive Kin; The Emergence of Feminism; The Seneca Falls Declaration; Domestic Science: A Halfway Feminism; Homemaker; Mother; Children; Reinventing Sex and Love: A Halfway Liberation; The Collapse and Revival of Mutual Aid; Mutual Aid Replaced by the Government; Postwar Suburbia: The Pinnacle of the Nonconnected Style; A New Family Policy: The G.I. Bill; Women's Continued Disadvantage; Chapter 3 - A Continuing Revolution: The 1950s to the Present; Separate, Unequal, and Discontent; An Expanded Mother Role; ""Quiet Desperation""A ""Massive Failure""; Social Protections; An ""Impoverished Experience""; Intimate Networks; A ""Major Problem""; Feminism Revived; Government Participation; Confronting the Sexual Double Standard; Love in the Late 20th Century; Love as Emotional Intimacy; Love as Caring for Oneself; Self-Sufficiency; Cohabitation: Love Without a License; Domestic Partnership; The Wedding as a Ritual of Transformation; Love and License Among Cohabiting Same-Sex Couples; The Culmination of Changes in Love: The Erotic Friendship; The Generic Essence of the Erotic Friendship; Adding FeaturesThe Counterrevolution Against New Views of Sex, Love, and Marriage; ""Kids First""; ""Cultural Decay""; Restricting Divorce; The Fate of the Equal Rights Amendment; The 1980 White House Conference on Families; Conclusion; Chapter 4 - Cohousing as Family Reform; Reforming the Nonconnected Lifestyle; Spatial Design and Social Connectedness; Support Networks; Sound Neighborhoods and Healthy Families; Balancing Freedom With Connectedness; The Struggles of Group Decision Making; Issues that may Unite or Divide a Cohousing Neighborhood; Children; Political or Social Agenda; Dyadic Intimacy Versus the Primary GroupHistoric Struggles Over the Freedom-Connectedness Tension; The Shakers; The Oneida Community; The Kibbutzim of the 1940s and 1950s; North American Communes of the 1960s and 1970s; Spatial Features; Freedom and Connectedness in Today's ""Community as Commodity""; The Common-Interest Development; The Fortress Mentality; Adults-Only Developments; Conclusion; Part II - Inventing the Future by Completing the Revolution; Chapter 5 - Empowering Women: Balancing the Private and Public Spheres; Utopian Realism; Gender Interchangeability; Equal-Partner Marriage: An Unrealized Vision
• Sommario/riassunto: Examining the challenges facing the nuclear family as it enters the new millenium, John Scanzoni sets the issue of change in families in aN historical and cross-cultural perspective tracing the development of the family from the Agricultural Age to the Information Age.