Families in the U.S.

by Karen Hansen and Karen V. Hansen

Book Overview

Attempts to do justice to the complexity of contemporary families and to situate them in their economic, political, and cultural contexts. This book explores the ways in which family life is gendered... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566395909
• ISBN13: 9781566395908
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 888 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

From family composition to social policy.

This is an extraordinarily abundant anthology of resources on a topic as broad as any that could be tackled. Given the wide variety of topics and approaches by the 56 writers, the reviewer especially appreciated the organization of chapters. The non-traditional construction, perhaps women's way of ordering ideas, offered a provocative exploration and encouraged new connections for the reader. Additionally, the editors provide a seven-page guide to 45 topics, alphabetically arranged, from adoption to working-class families. Researchers interested in class differences, for example, are referred to the eleven chapters which include such in their content. This creates an accessibity to the more than two pound resource