Families : joys, conflicts, and changes / / Alex Liazos

• Autore: Liazos Alex <1941-, >
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (332 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.850973
• Soggetto topico: Families - United States; Families
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: First published 2004 by Paradigm Publishers.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Setting the Scene; Family Changes, Family Continuities; Seven Family Scenes; Plymouth Colony, 1680s; A Kentucky Mountain Family, 1887-1946; An Italian Family, 1910s-1930s; A Lesbian Family, 1990s; African American Families Returning South; Working-Class English Families, 1950s; Polynesian Families, 1930s; What Are Families?; Major Themes of the Book; Appendix A: Data on U.S. Families; Appendix B: Some Terms to Understand; Chapter 2 Families in U.S. History ; Introduction and OverviewImages and Fears of Family Decline; Colonial Families; Families under Industrialism; Families in the Twentieth Century; Companionate Families and Marriages; Muncie, Indiana, 1890s, 1920s, and 1970s; The 1950s, in Memory and Reality; Enslaved and "Free" African American Families; The African Heritage; African American Families after Emancipation; Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860; Sharecropping, the Journey North, and the 1950s; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Making Sense of Families; Ideals, Longings, and Realities; Perspectives on Families; The Decline and Demise of Families ; Families Are Well and HealthyAnxious, Distressed, and Enduring Families; Power, Feminism, and Families; Letty Cottin Pogrebin; Joan Walsh; Judy Aulette; Judith Stacey; Summary; Sociology, History, and Families; Difficulties in the Study of Families; "The Good Old Days"; The Nuclear Family as "Normal" and Universal; Family Secrets and Façades; Conclusion: Beyond Power Struggles and Conflicts; Chapter 4 Marriage, Cohabitation, and Same-Sex Marriage; Marriages; Why Marry?; Some Statistics on Marriage; Marriages in U.S. History; Good Marriages and the Benefits of Marriage; Research on Marriage ; Characteristics of Good MarriagesThe Benefits of Marriage; Marriages over Time; Debates on the State of Marriage; Feminist Critiques; Marriages in Muncie, Indiana, in the 1970s; The Decline of Marriage?; The Rise of Cohabitation; What Is Cohabitation?; The Normalization of Cohabitation in Europe and the United States; Why Do People Cohabit?; Cohabitation and Divorce; Cohabitation and the Law; Same-Sex Couples-and Marriages?; The Struggle for Same-Sex Marriages; Same-Sex Unions in Other Countries; Rights and Benefits; Debates on Same-Sex Marriages; Conclusion; Chapter 5 Parents and Children ; The Joys of Childhood and Parenthood"Me and My Dad"; Celebrating a Family's Good Times; Why Have Children?; Parents and Children in Earlier Times; The Mundurucu of the Amazon in the 1950s; The Tikopia of Polynesia in the 1930s; The Mbuti of Zaire; The Montagnais of the St. Lawrence Valley; Our Babies, Ourselves: Some Lessons on Parenting; Bonding; Sleeping; Touching; Feeding; Parents and Children in African American Communities; All Our Kin; Call to Home; Historical Notes on Childhood and Parenting; Children; Parents; Children Today ; Busy Parents, Fear, Computers, and the Decline of Childhood?
• Titolo autorizzato: Families
• ISBN: 1-317-25971-8; 1-317-25970-X; 1-315-63466-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460262003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II