Contributor
Tipton, Steven M.
Imprint:Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2005.
Descriptionx, 317 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note:Marriage in the matrix of habit and history / Robert N. Bellah -- The biology of family values : reproductive strategies of our fellow primates / Frans B.M. de Waal and Amy S. Pollick -- Sex, marriage, and family life : the teachings of nature / Stephen J. Pope -- The family as contested terrain / Robert Wuthnow -- An economic perspective on sex, marriage, and the family in the contemporary United States / Robert T. Michael -- The family in trouble : since when? for whom? / Claude S. Fischer and Michael Hout -- Marriage and responsible fatherhood : the social science case and thoughts about a theological case / Linda J. Waite and William J. Doherty -- The changing pathway to marriage : trends in dating, first unions, and marriage among young adults / Barbara Dafoe Whitehead -- American middle-class families : class, social reproduction, and ritual / Bradd Shore -- The heart of the matter : the family as the site of fundamental, ethical struggle / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Inside the preindustrial household : the rule of men and the rights of women and children in late medieval and Reformation Europe / Steven Ozment -- Retrieving and reconstructing law, religion, and marriage in the Western tradition / John Witte, Jr. -- The world situation of families : marriage reformation as a cultural work / Don S. Browning.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
