About the Book
Judith Stacey has added a new preface to her classic study of how the traditional nuclear family has been supplanted by a variety of new relationships that are not defined by blood ties and traditional gender roles.
Brave New Families
Stories of Domestic Upheaval in Late-Twentieth-Century America
by Judith Stacey (Author)
Price: $33.95 / £29.00
Publication Date: Jul 1998
Edition: 1st Edition
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 342
ISBN: 9780520214002
Trim Size: 6.125 x 9.25
Illustrations: 1 b/w illustration, 4 line figures
About the Author
Judith Stacey is Streisand Professor of Contemporary Gender Studies and Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Patriarchy and the Socialist Revolution in China (California, 1983).
Table of Contents
Preface to the 1998 Edition
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introductions
1 The Making and Unmaking of Modern Families
2 Land of Dreams and Disasters: Postindustrial Living in the Silicon Valley
Book I Pamela's Kin: Feminism, Fundamentalism, and a Postmodern Extended Family
3 Pam's Revelation and Mine
4 Sprouting Some Odd Branches: A Divorce-Extended Family
5 Pamela's Children: Spirited Youth in Stressful Times
6 Global Ministries of Love and New Wave Evangelicalism
7 The Gray and Spotted Dogs
Book 11 The Lewisons: High-Tech Visions and Battered Dreams
8 The Last "Modem" Family in Town
9 To Feminism and Partway Back
10 If Wishes Were Fishes: Surviving Loss in a Matrifocal Family
Conclusions
11 The Postmodern Family, For Better and Worse
Epilogue Taking Women at Their Word
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introductions
1 The Making and Unmaking of Modern Families
2 Land of Dreams and Disasters: Postindustrial Living in the Silicon Valley
Book I Pamela's Kin: Feminism, Fundamentalism, and a Postmodern Extended Family
3 Pam's Revelation and Mine
4 Sprouting Some Odd Branches: A Divorce-Extended Family
5 Pamela's Children: Spirited Youth in Stressful Times
6 Global Ministries of Love and New Wave Evangelicalism
7 The Gray and Spotted Dogs
Book 11 The Lewisons: High-Tech Visions and Battered Dreams
8 The Last "Modem" Family in Town
9 To Feminism and Partway Back
10 If Wishes Were Fishes: Surviving Loss in a Matrifocal Family
Conclusions
11 The Postmodern Family, For Better and Worse
Epilogue Taking Women at Their Word
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Reviews
"Riveting . . . provides a final laying-to-rest of sociological shibboleths about the 'normal' nuclear family."—Nancy J. Chodorow