Contributor
Fox, Bonnie, 1948-
Edition Statement:3rd ed.
Imprint:Don Mills, Ont. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Descriptionxxi, 580 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:Preface ; Acknowledgements ; PART ONE: PUTTING 'FAMILY' IN PERSPECTIVE ; 1. Conceptualizing Family ; 2. The Unnatural Family ; 3. Is There a Family? New Anthropological Views ; PART TWO: DIVERSE FAMILY PATTERNS ; Section 1: Foraging Societies: Communal 'Households' ; 4. Women in an Egalitarian Society. The Montagnais-Naskapi of Canada ; Section 2: Agricultural Societies: The 'Family Economy' ; 5. The Family Economy in Modern England and France ; 6. Patriarchal Relations of Production in Nineteenth-Century Ontario ; Section 3: Industrial Capitalism: The Rise of Breadwinner-Homemaker Families ; 7. Dynamics of Kin in an Industrial Economy ; 8. Domesticity ; 9. Putting Mothers on the Pedestal ; Section 4: From 1950s Breadwinner-Homemaker to Twenty-First-Century Diversity ; 10. Sexuality and the Postwar Domestic Revival ; 11. Wives and Husbands ; 12. As Times Change: A Review of Trends in Family Life ; PART THREE: ELEMENTS OF FAMILY ; Section 1: Sexuality: Negotiating Adult Intimacy ; 13. Heterosexuality: Contested Ground ; 14. Navigating Sexual Terrain: Legacies of the Sacred and the Secular in the Lives of French Canadian Women ; 15. One Is Not Born a Bride: How Weddings Regulate Heterosexuality ; Section 2: Marriage and Domesticity: Becoming Family ; 16. 'Here Comes the Bride': The Making of a 'Modern Traditional' Wedding in Western Culture ; 17. Veering Toward Domesticity ; 18. Education, Work and Family Decision Making: Finding the 'Right Time' to Have a Baby ; Section 3: Parenthood and Child Care: Taking on Gendered Responsibilities ; 19. When the Baby Comes Home: The Dynamics of Gender in the Making of Family ; 20. Motherwork, Stress and Depression: The Costs of Privatized Social Reproduction ; 21. 'It's Like a Family': Living in a Co-operative Setting ; 22. Opting into Motherhood: Lesbians Blurring the Boundaries and Transforming the Meaning of Parenthood and Kinship ; Section 4: The Gender-divided Work Involved in Maintaining Families ; 23. Household Labour and the Routine Production of Gender ; 24. Lesbians at Home: Why Can't a Man Be More Like a Woman? ; 25. Moneywork: Caregiving and the Management of Family Finances ; 26. The Politics of Family and Immigration in the Subordination of Domestic Workers in Canada ; 27. Family Coping Strategies: Balancing Paid Employment and Domestic Labour ; PART FOUR: FAMILIES NEGOTIATING CHANGE, CHANGING FAMILIES ; 28. From Hong Kong to Canada: Immigration and the Changing Family Lives of Middle-class Women from Hong Kong ; 29. Gender, Generation and the 'Immigrant Family': Negotiating Migration Processes ; 30. Transforming Rural Livelihoods: Gender, Work and Restructuring in Three Ontario Communities ; PART FIVE: OTHER FAMILY MATTERS ; 31. Confronting Violence in Women's Lives ; 32. Children's Adjustment to Divorce ; 33. Lessons from Europe: Policy Options to Enhance the Economic Security of Canadian Families.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
