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Book Synopsis
A 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 Contents
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

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 15 July 1998
      ISBN-13 9780520214002
      978-0520214002
      ISBN-10 0520214005
      Also in:
      Gender studies: women and girls Sociology: family, kinship and relationships Sociology: work and labour

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A 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 Contents
      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

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