Changing American Families - Softcover

Aulette, Judy Root; Aulette

9780205343157: Changing American Families

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205343155 ISBN 13: 9780205343157

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 2001

A one of a kind text that examines family life in the United States from colonial times to modern day, and provides a distinctly feminist perspective focusing on gender inequality during this period. Each chapter contains a three-part format that cover the key issues related to the topic, theoretical debates that exist within the field, and human agency and social movements that include the actions people have taken to cope with, resist, or change specific family problems. How to study families in the twenty-first century; a history of U.S. families with a focus on Euro-American and African-American families; Families and the economic system; the organization of race, class and gender; work and the family, love and sex; marriage; divorce; battering and marital rape are all covered. For anyone interested in studying family issues and concerns. Family Therapists, Counselors, Social Workers and others who search for better understanding of the complexities of family dynamics.

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From the Back Cover:

Changing American Families, 2/e

Judy R. Aulette, University of North Carolina - Charlotte

ISBN: 0205484468

Changing American Families offers two different perspectives on families–the macro-level view that examines social structure and historical change, and the micro-level view that focuses on the everyday, lived experiences of families. Using insights from feminist scholarship, as well as mainstream sociology and other social sciences, the author shows how the family is a political area of study, looking at the ways in which people differ, confront, negotiate, and struggle for change. The text’s unique contribution is to bridge the gap between micro and macro levels of analysis–showing how powerful social structures profoundly affect individual families, but also how families can sometimes resist, challenge, and change those same social institutions.

About the Author:

Judy Aulette is Associate professor of Sociology at University of North Carolina-Charlotte. She was recently named a Fulbright Scholar to teach, lecture, and conduct research at the University of Western Cape (where Desmond Tutu is the chancellor) on women’s health issues, the sociology of gender, family policy, research methods and the women’s movement in South Africa.

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