Description
Book SynopsisA study of how the traditional nuclear family has been supplanted by a variety of relationships that are not defined by blood ties and traditional gender roles.
Table of ContentsPreface 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
