Brave New Families

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.

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).

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