Family patterns, gender relations
By: edited by Bonnie J. Fox.
Contributors: Fox, Bonnie, 1948-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
Subjects: Family; Sex role
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The unnatural family / Felicity Edholm; title: Is there a family? New anthropological views / Jane Collier, Michelle Z. Rosaldo, Sylvia Yanagisako; title: Conceptualizing "family"; title: Bonnie J. Fox, Meg Luxton; title: !Kung women: contrasts in sexual egalitarianism in foraging and sedentary contexts; title: Patricia Draper; title: Women in an egalitarian society: the Montagnais-Naskapi of Canada / Eleanor Leacock; title: The family economy in modern England and France / Louise Tilly, Joan Scott; title: The fragmented family: family strategies in the face of death, illness, and poverty, Montreal, 1860-1891 / Bettina Bradbury; title: Pigs, cows, and boarders: non-wage forms of survival among Montreal families, 1861-1891 / Bettoma Bradbury; title: Domesticity / Nancy Cott; title: Putting mothers on the pedestal / Maxine Margolis; title: Bread before roses: American workingmen, labour unions, and the family wage / Martha May; title: The rise and fall of the breadwinner-homemaker family / Bonnie J. Fox; title: The reproduction of family life: perspectives of male and female adolescents / Jane Gaskell; title: The more things change ...: an update on Gaskell's findings / Lorna Irwin, Penni Stewart; title: Commitment and the cultural mandate: woman in medicine / Patricia Bourne, Norma Wikler; title: Heterosexuality: contested ground / Mariana Valverde; title: Heterosexual sex: power and desire for the other / Wendy Hollway; title: Gender politics: love and power in the private and public spheres / Francesca Cancian; title: Desperately seeking babies: new technologies of hope and despair / Rona Achilles; title: Childbirth as culture, experience and politics / Shelly Romalis; title: Motherwork, stress, and depression: the costs of privatized social reproduction / Harriet Rosenberg; title: The acceptance of the concept of the maternal role by behavioural scientists: its effect on women / Rochelle Paul Wortis; title: The good father: reconstructing fatherhood / Lynne Segal; title: The politics of family and immigration in the subordination of domestic workers in Canada / Sedef Arat-Koc; title: Violence against wives / R. Emerson Dobash, Russell Dobash; title: Child battery / Susan G. Cole; title: In whose best interest: the politics of joint custody / Janice Drakich; title: The demise of domesticity in America / Alice Kessler-Harris, Karen Brodkin Sacks; title: Pathbreakers: some unconventional families of the 90s / Bonnie J. Fox, Doreen Fumia.