Families in the U.S.: Kinship and Domestic Politics (Women in the Political Economy) - Softcover

9781566395908: Families in the U.S.: Kinship and Domestic Politics (Women in the Political Economy)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566395909 ISBN 13: 9781566395908

Publisher: Temple University Press, 1998

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 and reflects on the work of maintaining family and kin relationships, especially as social and family power structures change over time.

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From the Publisher:

Leading feminist scholars contemplate the complexity of today's American families

About the Author:

Karen V. Hansen, Associate Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University, is the author of A Very Social Time: Crafting Community in Antebellum New England, and the co-editor (with Ilene J. Philipson) of Women, Class, and the Feminist Imagination: A Socialist-Feminist Reader (Temple, 1990). Anita Ilta Garey, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire, is the author of Weaving Work and Family: Working Mothers and the Construction of Meaning (forthcoming, Temple).

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