Brave New Families Stories of Domestic Upheaval in Late-Twentieth-Century America

by Judith Stacey (Author)
July 1998
First Edition
Paperback
$33.95, £28.00
Courses
Sociology of the Family Sociology of Gender Gender Inequality
Title Details

Rights: Available worldwide
Pages: 342
ISBN: 9780520214002
Trim Size: 6.125 x 9.25
Illustrations: 1 b/w illustration, 4 line figures

About the Book About the Author Reviews Table of Contents Related Books

About the Book

Judith Stacey has added a new preface to her classic study of how the traditional nuclear family has been supplanted by a variety of new relationships that are not defined by blood ties and traditional gender roles.

About the Author

Judith Stacey is Streisand Professor of Contemporary Gender Studies and Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Patriarchy and the Socialist Revolution in China (California, 1983).

Reviews

"Riveting . . . provides a final laying-to-rest of sociological shibboleths about the 'normal' nuclear family."—Nancy J. Chodorow

Preface to the 1998 Edition
Acknowledgments
Prologue

Introductions

1 The Making and Unmaking of Modern Families
2 Land of Dreams and Disasters: Postindustrial Living in the Silicon Valley

Book I Pamela's Kin: Feminism, Fundamentalism, and a Postmodern Extended Family
3 Pam's Revelation and Mine
4 Sprouting Some Odd Branches: A Divorce-Extended Family
5 Pamela's Children: Spirited Youth in Stressful Times
6 Global Ministries of Love and New Wave Evangelicalism
7 The Gray and Spotted Dogs

Book 11 The Lewisons: High-Tech Visions and Battered Dreams
8 The Last "Modem" Family in Town
9 To Feminism and Partway Back
10 If Wishes Were Fishes: Surviving Loss in a Matrifocal Family

Conclusions
11 The Postmodern Family, For Better and Worse

Epilogue Taking Women at Their Word
Notes
Bibliography
Index