Marriage markets : : how inequality is remaking the American family / / June Carbone and Naomi Cahn.
"There was a time when the phrase "American family" conjured up a single, specific image: a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and their 2.5 kids living comfortable lives in a middle-class suburb. Today, that image has been shattered, due in part to skyrocketing divorce rates, single p...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Oxford : : Oxford University Press, USA,, [2014] 2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (267 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
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- Introduction
- Section I: The Puzzles of Today's Families
- Chapter 1: Changing Families
- Chapter 2: The New Foundations for Family Life: The Disappearance of the Center and the Emergence of Marriage As a Marker of Class
- Chapter 3: Not Blaming the Victim: Derailed by Moynihan
- Chapter 4: Blaming the Victim: The Morality Tale
- Chapter 5: Getting Closer: The Rediscovery of Marriage Markets
- Section II: The New Terms
- Chapter 6: The Heart of the Matter
- Chapter 7: Where the Men Are
- Chapter 8: Remaking Class Barriers: Children and Achievement
- Chapter 9: The Recreation of Class
- Section III: Legalizing Inequality: The Class Divide in the Meaning of Family Law
- Chapter 10: The Law: Rewriting the Marital Script
- Chapter 11: Shared Parenting: Egalitarian, Patriarchal or Both?
- Section IV: Rebuilding Community: Inequality, Class, and Family
- Chapter 12: Rebuilding From the Top Down: The Family, Inequality and Employment
- Chapter 13: Rebuilding from the Bottom up: Addressing Children's Needs.
- Chapter 14: Sex, Power, Patriarchy and Parental Obligation
- Chapter 15: The Rebirth of Community and the Family.