Brave new families : stories of domestic upheaval in late-twentieth-century America

Author(s)

• Stacey, Judith

Bibliographic Information

Brave new families : stories of domestic upheaval in late-twentieth-century America

Judith Stacey ; with a new preface

University of California Press, c1998

• : pbk

Note

Originally published: New York : Basic Books, c1990

First paperback printing 1998

Bibliography: p. 305-321

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

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

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA38214292
• ISBN:
  • 0520214005
• LCCN: 97049328
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Berkeley
• Pages/Volumes: xxii, 328 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HQ536.15.S26
  • DC21 : 306.85/09794/73
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Family -- California -- Santa Clara County -- Case studies
  • LCSH : Working class families -- California -- Santa Clara County -- Case studies