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Tables of Contents for Gender and Families
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Series Editors' Introduction
ix
1
About This Volume
x
CHAPTER 1 The Social Construction of Gender and Families
1
25
A Social Constructionist Approach
1
8
What Is Family?
3
4
What Is Gender?
7
1
Gender and Social Reproduction
7
2
Understanding Gender and Families
9
4
Using Gender as a Lens
9
1
Thinking for Yourself
9
1
Using Popular Culture
10
3
Family Rituals and the Construction of Reality
13
9
Home for the Holidays
13
2
Making Sense of the Thanksgiving Ritual
15
3
Rituals Reaffirm Family Ties
18
1
Family Rituals Reproduce Gender
19
3
Family Diversity
22
2
Organization of the Book
24
2
CHAPTER 2 Love, Sex, and Marriage
26
27
Love Advice in the 20th Century
26
4
Advice for the Lovelorn, 1900 to 1950
27
1
How to Win and Hold a Husband
27
3
"Fascinating Womanhood" in the 1960s and 1970s
30
2
The "Ideal Woman" From a Man's Point of View
30
2
Romance in the 1990s
32
3
Gender and Emotion Management
32
1
Contemporary Patterns of Flirting
33
2
Popular Images of Romantic Love
35
1
Love and Marriage in the Past
35
5
The Birth of Courtly Love
38
2
Sentimental Love and Modern Marriage
40
4
Sex as Marital Property
40
3
The Continuing Significance of Romantic Love
43
1
Love Matches and Marriage Markets
44
8
Sexual Exchanges
44
2
Dateline Personal Advertisements
46
1
Marriage Exchanges
47
5
Homogamy
49
3
Concluding Thoughts on Love, Sex, and Marriage
52
1
CHAPTER 3 Paid Work and Family Life
53
22
Chris and Pat's Activity Log
53
3
Work and Family Life
56
1
Separate Spheres: Myth or Reality?
57
7
From Home Production to a Market Economy
58
4
The Persistence of the Ideal of Separate Spheres
62
1
Separate Spheres and Gender Inequality
63
1
Modern Labor Market Trends
64
5
Work-Family Linkages
67
1
Job and Family Commitments
68
1
Who Does the Housework?
69
2
Stability and Change
71
4
CHAPTER 4 Mothers, Fathers, and Family Care
75
32
Letter From Mahatma Gandhi to His Son
75
2
Families and Care
77
1
Letter to an Unborn Child: Jessie Bernard to Dorothy Lee
78
3
Gender and Care
81
2
Historical Views of Family Care
83
7
Shifting Images of Children
83
2
Shifting Images of Fathers
85
2
Shifting Images of Mothers
87
2
Moving Into the 1950s
89
1
Modern Parenting
90
17
Compulsory Motherhood
90
1
Recent Fertility Patterns
91
5
Realities of Parenthood
96
9
After the Baby Arrives
98
4
Bringing the Fathers Back In
102
3
Prospects for the Future
105
2
CHAPTER 5 Engendering Children
107
25
Images of Childhood Gender Difference
108
2
The World According to Mother Goose
108
2
Theories of Gender Socialization
110
13
Child Socialization
112
2
Separating Boys and Girls
114
2
Psychoanalytic Gender Theory
116
4
Cognitive Gender Theory
120
3
Patterns of Gender Socialization
123
6
Gender Differences in Treatment of Infants
124
1
Gender Differences in Treatment of Children
125
2
Boys and Masculinity
127
2
Parenting and Gender Inequality
129
3
CHAPTER 6 Regulating Families and Gender
132
28
News Stories
132
2
Man Claims Right to Rape His Wife
132
1
Wife Killer Awarded Custody of Daughter
132
1
Abused Husband Denied Custody of Son
133
1
Gender, Family, and the Law
134
1
Family Policy and the State
135
5
Theories Linking State, Family, and Gender
140
3
Pluralist Theories
141
1
Conflict Theories
141
2
Class Conflict
141
1
Patriarchy
142
1
Family Law in Historical Perspective
143
8
The Legal Doctrine of Coverture
143
1
Husbands' Rights Over Wives
144
2
Nineteenth-Century Feminist Challenges to Coverture
146
2
Modern Vestiges of Marriage as Property
148
2
Marriage Customs and Laws Change Together
150
1
Government Child Support
151
2
Child Support and Child Custody Reforms
153
5
Gender Politics in Custody/Support Reforms
154
2
Should Laws and Policies Be Based on Gender Differences?
156
2
The Larger Social Context
158
2
CHAPTER 7 Where Do We Go From Here?
160
19
The Major Social Forces
162
14
Economic Trends
162
5
Social Trends
167
1
Demographic Trends
168
4
Political Trends
172
4
Putting It All Together
176
3
References
179
28
Index
207
13
About the Author
220