Full Description
In this thoroughly revised and highly anticipated updated edition of Family Patterns, Gender Relations, editor Bonnie Fox explores the complex dynamics and patterns of family life. Building on a wide range of material from Canada, the US, and the UK, this third edition presents engaging new readings on cutting-edge topics. Some of these topics include same-sex marriage and parenting, finances and child-birth, and the "immigrant family". Fox's introductory commentary for each reading has been revised to reflect the current state of the discipline and to establish a present-day context for the material. The result is a succinct and analytical volume that highlights all of the social factors involved in studying the institution of the family. Engaging and relevant, Family Patterns, Gender Relations will spark students' interest and encourage in-depth discussion.
Contents
Preface ; Acknowledgements ; PART ONE: PUTTING 'FAMILY' IN PERSPECTIVE ; 1. Conceptualizing Family ; 2. The Unnatural Family ; 3. Is There a Family? New Anthropological Views ; PART TWO: DIVERSE FAMILY PATTERNS ; Section 1: Foraging Societies: Communal 'Households' ; 4. Women in an Egalitarian Society. The Montagnais-Naskapi of Canada ; Section 2: Agricultural Societies: The 'Family Economy' ; 5. The Family Economy in Modern England and France ; 6. Patriarchal Relations of Production in Nineteenth-Century Ontario ; Section 3: Industrial Capitalism: The Rise of Breadwinner-Homemaker Families ; 7. Dynamics of Kin in an Industrial Economy ; 8. Domesticity ; 9. Putting Mothers on the Pedestal ; Section 4: From 1950s Breadwinner-Homemaker to Twenty-First-Century Diversity ; 10. Sexuality and the Postwar Domestic Revival ; 11. Wives and Husbands ; 12. As Times Change: A Review of Trends in Family Life ; PART THREE: ELEMENTS OF FAMILY ; Section 1: Sexuality: Negotiating Adult Intimacy ; 13. Heterosexuality: Contested Ground ; 14. Navigating Sexual Terrain: Legacies of the Sacred and the Secular in the Lives of French Canadian Women ; 15. One Is Not Born a Bride: How Weddings Regulate Heterosexuality ; Section 2: Marriage and Domesticity: Becoming Family ; 16. 'Here Comes the Bride': The Making of a 'Modern Traditional' Wedding in Western Culture ; 17. Veering Toward Domesticity ; 18. Education, Work and Family Decision Making: Finding the 'Right Time' to Have a Baby ; Section 3: Parenthood and Child Care: Taking on Gendered Responsibilities ; 19. When the Baby Comes Home: The Dynamics of Gender in the Making of Family ; 20. Motherwork, Stress and Depression: The Costs of Privatized Social Reproduction ; 21. 'It's Like a Family': Living in a Co-operative Setting ; 22. Opting into Motherhood: Lesbians Blurring the Boundaries and Transforming the Meaning of Parenthood and Kinship ; Section 4: The Gender-divided Work Involved in Maintaining Families ; 23. Household Labour and the Routine Production of Gender ; 24. Lesbians at Home: Why Can't a Man Be More Like a Woman? ; 25. Moneywork: Caregiving and the Management of Family Finances ; 26. The Politics of Family and Immigration in the Subordination of Domestic Workers in Canada ; 27. Family Coping Strategies: Balancing Paid Employment and Domestic Labour ; PART FOUR: FAMILIES NEGOTIATING CHANGE, CHANGING FAMILIES ; 28. From Hong Kong to Canada: Immigration and the Changing Family Lives of Middle-class Women from Hong Kong ; 29. Gender, Generation and the 'Immigrant Family': Negotiating Migration Processes ; 30. Transforming Rural Livelihoods: Gender, Work and Restructuring in Three Ontario Communities ; PART FIVE: OTHER FAMILY MATTERS ; 31. Confronting Violence in Women's Lives ; 32. Children's Adjustment to Divorce ; 33. Lessons from Europe: Policy Options to Enhance the Economic Security of Canadian Families
