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Title:
American families past and present : social perspectives on transformations / edited by Susan M. Ross.
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press,
Copyright Date:
c2006
Description:
vii, 344 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Family--United States--History.
Famille--États-Unis--Histoire.
Other Authors:
Ross, Susan M., 1968-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Lessons from abroad : leave policy from an international perspective / Steven K. Wisensale Bastardy, fitness, and the invention of adolescence / Kristin Luker -- The modernization of grandparenthood / Andrew J. Cherlin and Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. -- Historical perspectives on family diversity / Stephanie Coontz -- Fertility on the frontier : bringing women back in / Anita Ilta Garey -- Multigenerational families in nineteenth-century America / Steven Ruggles -- Calling cards and money / Beth L. Bailey -- Making time for family : the invention of family time(s) and the reinvention of family history / John Gillis -- The civil contract and family life in the United States / Lisa J. McIntyre -- Do wedding dresses come in lavender? The prospects and implications of same-sex marriage / Angela Bolte -- Constructing mothers : scientific motherhood in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Rima D. Apple -- Motherhood denied : women and infertility in historical perspective / Margaret Marsh -- America's home front children in World War II / William M. Tuttle, Jr. -- Containment at home : Cold War, warm hearth / Elaine Tyler May -- Our mothers' grief : racial ethnic women and the maintenance of families / Bonnie Thornton Dill -- The arduous transition to the industrial north / Donna L. Franklin -- Who deserves help? Who must provide? / Linda Gordon -- Money and morality / Sharon Hays -- Child care and social citizenship for women / Sonya Michel -- Lessons from abroad : leave policy from an international perspective / Steven K. Wisensale
ISBN:
9780813538181 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813538181 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813538174 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813538173 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN:
2005019947
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
OTAX626 -- Wilcox Library (Oskaloosa)

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