The State of Families

Law, Policy, and the Meanings of Relationships
Herausgeber: Reich, Jennifer A.

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Produktbeschreibung

The State of Families: Law, Policy, and the Meanings of Relationships collects essential readings on the family to examine the multiple forms of contemporary families, the many issues facing families, the policies that regulate families, and how families-and family life-have become politicized. This text explores various dimensions of "the family" and uses a critical approach to understand the historical, cultural, and political constructions of the family. Each section takes different aspects of the family to highlight the intersection of individual experience, structures of inequality-including race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, and immigration-and state power. Readings, both original and reprinted from a wide range of experts in the field, show the multiple forms and meanings of family by delving into topics including the traditional ground of motherhood, childhood, and marriage, while also exploring cutting edge research into fatherhood, reproduction, child-free families, and welfare. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the family, The State of Families offers students in the social sciences and professionals working with families new ways to identify how social structure and institutional practice shape individual experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 866g
• ISBN-13: 9780367027766
• ISBN-10: 0367027763
• Artikelnr.: 60009002

Autorenporträt

Jennifer A. Reich is Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado Denver. She is the author of two award-winning books, Fixing Families: Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare System and Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines, and is co-editor of the book Reproduction and Society. Her research examines how individuals and families weigh information and strategize their interactions with the state and service providers in the context of public policy, particularly as they relate to healthcare and welfare.

Inhaltsangabe

Section I: Defining Families Introduction 1. The challenge of defining
"family" Lynn H. Turner and Richard West 2.Redefining families: Who's in
and who's out Martha Minow 3. Child marriage is still legal in the U.S.
Nicholas Syrett 4. Family, feminism, and race in America Maxine Baca Zinn
5. More people than ever before are single - and that's a good thing Bella
DePaulo Section II: Rules of Dating and Courtship Introduction 6. From
front porch to back seat: A history of the date Beth Bailey 7. What meeting
your spouse online has in common with arranged marriage Amitrajeet A.
Batabyal 8. What's so cultural about hookup culture? Lisa Wade 9. Straight
girls do kiss on campus, but what about those who don't go to college?
Jamie Budnick 10. 'If I could really say that and get away with it!'
Accountability and ambivalence in American parents' sexuality lessons in
the age of abstinence Sinikka Elliott 11. Think teens need the sex talk?
Older adults may need it even more Heather Honoré Goltz and Matthew Lee
Smith Section III: Regulating Relationships: Marriage and Partnerships
Introduction 12. The language of (in) visibility: Using in-between spaces
as a vehicle for empowerment in the family Katie L. Acosta 13. Mothers and
Moneymakers: How Gender Norms Shape US Marriage Migration Politics Gina
Marie Longo 14. Polygamy in the United States: How marginalized religious
communities cope with stigmatizing discourses surrounding plural marriage
Michael K. Ault and Bobbi Van Gilder 15. The Trouble with Tolerance
Suzanna Danuta Walters 16. "Women's work"? Women partners of transgender
men doing housework and emotion work Carla A. Pfeffer Section IV:
Separation and Divorce Introduction 17. Have children? Here's how kids ruin
your romantic relationship Matthew D. Johnson 18. Can This Relationship Be
Saved? The Legal Profession and Families in Transition Pauline H. Tesler
19. What It's Like to Get a Queer Divorce After Fighting for Marriage
Equality" Shannon Weber 20. What type of relationship should I have with my
co-parent now we're divorced? Kristin Natalier 21. Role ambiguity among
women providing care for ex-husbands Teresa M. Cooney, Christine M. Proulx,
Linley A. Snyder-Rivas, and Jacquelyn J. Benson 22. Why fewer and fewer
Americans are getting divorced Tera R. Jordan Section V: Reproducing
Families Introduction 23. Beyond mothers and fathers: Ideology in a
patriarchal society Barbara Katz. Rothman 24. Why Coverage of Prescription
Contraception Matters for Men as Well as Women Krystale Littlejohn 25. New
Evidence about Women's Experience with Abortion Diana Greene Foster, Rana
E. Barar, and Heather Gould 26. Moral women, immoral technologies: How
devout women negotiate gender, religion, and assisted reproductive
technologies Danielle Czarnecki 27. Race matters in lesbian donor
insemination: whiteness and heteronormativity as co-constituted narratives
Maura Ryan and Amanda Moras 28. Immigration policies can make the
difference between life and death for newborn US children Maria Rodriguez
and Jens Hainmuelle 29. Born in the USA: Having a baby is costly and
confusing, even for a health policy expert Simon Haeder Section VI:
Building Families Through Adoption Introduction 30. Race and "Value": Black
and White Illegitimate Babies, 1945-1965 Rickie Solinger 31. International
adoptions have dropped 72 percent since 2005 - here's why Mark Montgomery
and Irene Powell 32. Letting her go: Western adoptive families' search and
reunion with Chinese birth parents Leslie Kim Wang, Iris Chin Ponte, and
Elizabeth Weber Ollen 33. "It was the Cadillac of adoption agencies":
intersections of social class, race, and sexuality in gay men's adoption
narratives Dana Berkowitz Section VII: Families without Children
Introduction 34. Childless... or childfree? Amy Blackstone 35. Unwomanly
conduct: The challenges of intentional childlessness Carolyn M. Morell 36.
Infertility through the ages - and how IVF changed the way we think about
it Tracey Loughran 37. Hard Evidence: does fertility really 'drop off a
cliff' at 35? Nicholas Raine-Fenning Section VIII: Children and Teens in
Families Introduction 38. Where Has Teen Car Culture Gone? Gary Cross 39.
For the parents of gender-nonconforming kids, a new approach to care Tey
Meadow 40. White families and race: Colour-blind and colour-conscious
approaches to white racial socialization Margaret Ann Hagerman 41. When
"Helicopters" Go to School: Who Gets Rescued and Who Gets Left Behind?
Jessica Calarco 42. Missing school is a given for children of migrant
farmworkers Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz 43. Stigma management among children of
incarcerated parents Kate Luther 44. Why today's teens aren't in any hurry
to grow up Jean Twenge 45. Rituals of Childhood Kieran Healy Section IX:
Experiences and Expectations of Motherhood Introduction 46. Mothering while
disabled Angela Frederick 47. I've talked to dozens of parents about why
they don't vaccinate. Here's what they told me. Jennifer Reich 48. The joy
of cooking? Sarah Bowen, Sinikka Elliott, and Joslyn Brenton 49. The deadly
challenges of raising African American boys: Navigating the controlling
image of the "thug" Dawn Marie Dow 50. The 'organic child' ideal holds
mothers to an impossible standard Kate Cairns, Norah MacKendrick, and Josée
Johnston 51. "Not My Way, Sesha. Your Way. Slowly": A Personal Narrative on
Raising a Child with Profound Intellectual Disabilities Eva Feder Kittay
52. Kids Don't Damage Women's Careers - Men Do Jessica Valenti Section X:
Defining Fatherhood Introduction 53. Organized youth sport and parenting in
public and private spaces. Dawn E. Trussell and Susan M. Shaw 54. Who's
your daddy? Don't ask a DNA test Nara Milanich 55. Biology and Conformity:
Expectations of Fathers in Reunification in the Child Welfare System
Jennifer Reich 56. Navigating the tricky waters of being a stepdad Joshua
Gold 57. I am who I need to be: reflections on parental identity
development from a father of a child with disabilities. Shailen Singh 58.
Fathers also want to 'have it all' Gayle Kaufman Section XI: Poverty and
Family Policy Introduction 59. As American as apple pie: Poverty and
welfare Mark R. Rank 60. How Racism has Shaped Welfare Policy in America
since 1935 Alma Carten 61. The Diaper Dilemma Jennifer Randles 62. Why
Policies Meant to Discourage Poor Women from Having Children are
Ineffective and Punitive Diana Romero and Madina Agénor 63. Negotiating the
Discourse of Race within the United States Welfare System. Vicki Lens and
Colleen Cary 64. LGBT Poverty in the United States M.V. Lee Badgett, Soon
Kyu Choi, Bianca D.M. Wilson 65. What it means to be "under-connected" in
lower-income families. Vikki S. Katz Section XII: Aging Introduction 66.
Aging in Places Stacy Torres 67. Doing it my way: old women, technology and
wellbeing Meika Loe 68. Could different cultures teach us something about
dementia? Richard Gunderman and Lily Wolf 69. The Perils and Pleasures of
Aging: How Women's Sexualities Change across the Life Course Lisa R. Miller
70. Think You're Not Having Enough Sex? Try Being A Senior In Assisted
LivingElisabeth O. Burgess, Alexis A. Bender, and Christina Barmon 71.
Skip fights about digital devices over the holidays - instead, let them
bring your family together Shelia Cotten Epilogue: Future Families