Pew Learning Center and Ellison Library


Pew Learning Center and Ellison Library
FRS 126: The Families: Myths & Reality
Fall Semester, 2005

Selected WWC Books

TitleCall Number
Topic 1: Defining the Family and "Family Crisis"
The American Family / Duda (2003) 306.850973 A512d
Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing in America (eBook) / Stearns (2003) NetLibrary
Children's Influence on Family Dynamics: The Neglected Side of Family Relationships (eBook) / Crouter (2003) NetLibrary
Families in America: A Reference Handbook / Turner (2002) R 306.850973 T948f 2002
Family Communication (eBook) / Segrin (2003) NetLibrary
Handbook of Family Communication (eBook) / Vangelisti (2004) NetLibrary
Topic 2: Theories
The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families / Scott (2004) 306.85 B632
Continuity and Change in Family Relations: Theory, Methods, and Empirical Findings (eBook) / Conger (2004) NetLibrary
Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories / Code (2000) R 305.4203 E56 2000
Encyclopedia of Sociology / Borgatta (2000) R 301.03 E56 2000 v.1-v.5
Family Studies: An Introduction (eBook) / Bernardes (2002) NetLibrary
Mothers and Children: Feminist Analyses and Personal Narratives / Chase (2001) 306.8743 C487m
The Social Science Encyclopedia / Kuper (2004) R 300.3 S678 2004 v.1-v.2
Topic 3: Social Changes and Their Impacts
Beacham's Encyclopedia of Social Change: America in the Twentieth Century / Khan (2001) R 306.0973 B365 2001 v.1-v.4
The Career Mystique: Cracks in the American Dream / Moen (2005) 306.360973 M693c
Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World / Christensen (2003) R 307.03 E56 2003
v.1-v.4
Families of a New World: Gender, Politics, and State Development in a Global Context / Haney (2003) 306.8509 F198
Just Living Together: Implications of Cohabitation on Families, Children, and Social Policy (eBook) / Booth (2002) NetLibrary
Making Babies, Making Families: What Matters Most in an Age of Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy, Adoption, and Same-sex and Unwed Parents (eBook) / Shanley (2002) NetLibrary
Mommy Queerest: Contemporary Rhetorics of Lesbian Maternal Identity / Thompson (2002) 306.8743 T473m
The New Population Problem: Why Families in Developed Countries Are Shrinking and What It Means (eBook) / Booth (2005) NetLibrary
Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval (eBook) / White (2002) NetLibrary
Shooting the Family: Transnational Media and Intercultural Values (eBook) / Pisters (2005) NetLibrary
Work and Family in the EWork Era (eBook ) / Cullen (2003) NetLibrary
Topic 4: Work, Family and Parenting
The Betrayal of Work: How Low-wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans and Their Families / Shulman (2003) 306.850973 S562d
Day Care Deception: What the Child Care Establishment Isn't Telling Us / Robertson (2003) 362.7120973 R649d
Fathers and Mothers: Dilemmas of the Work-life Balance: A Comparative Study in Four European Countries (eBook) / Fine-Davis (2004) NetLibrary
From Work-family Balance to Work-family Interaction: Changing the Metaphor (eBook) / Halpern (2004) NetLibrary
Marriage, Work, and Family Life in Comparative Perspective: Japan, South Korea, and the United States / Tsuya (2004) 306.85 M359
Not-so-nuclear Families: Class, Gender, and Networks of Care (eBook) / Hansen (2005) NetLibrary
Prevention and Coping in Child and Family Care: Mothers in Adversity Coping With Child Care (eBook) / Sheppard (2004) NetLibrary
Putting Work in Its Place: A Quiet Revolution / Meiksins (2002) 306.361 M512p
The Two-income Trap: Why Middle-class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke (eBook) / Warren (2003) NetLibrary
Work-family Challenges for Low-income Parents and Their children (eBook) / Booth (2004) NetLibrary
Working Families and Growing Kids: Caring for Children and Adolescents (eBook) / Smolensky (2003) NetLibrary
Young Europeans, Work and Family: Futures in Transition (eBook) / Brannen (2002) NetLibrary
Topic 5: Race, Class, Gender and Diversity in Families
Black Families at the Crossroads: Challenges and Prospects (eBook) / Johnson (2005) NetLibrary
Celebrating the Family: Ethnicity, Consumer Culture, and Family Rituals / Pleck (2000) 394.26973 P724c
Changing Gender Roles: Brazilian Immigrant Families in the U.S. (eBook) / DeBiaggi (2002) NetLibrary
Encyclopedia of Women and Gender: Sex Similarities and Differences and the Impact of Society on Gender / Worell (2001) R 305.403 E56 2001 v.1-v.2
Family Diversity: Continuity and Change in the Contemporary Family / Erera (2002) 306.850973 E67f
The Family of Woman: Lesbian Mothers, Their Children, and the Undoing of Gender (eBook) / Sullivan (2004) NetLibrary
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide / Walter (2003) R 305.4209767 G816 2003 v.1-v.6
Home and Kin: Families in Asia / Quah (2003) 306.85095 Q1h
Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries (eBook) / Espiritu (2003) NetLibrary
Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption / Kennedy (2004) 346.7301 K36i
Latino Families Broken by Immigration: The Adolescent's Perception (eBook) / Artico (2003) NetLibrary
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life / Lareau (2003) 305.23 L321u
Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class / Tea (2003) 305.489623 W824
Topic 6: Courtship, Dating, Love and Marriage
The Case for Marriage: Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially / Waite (2001) 306.810973 W145c
Here Comes the Bride: Women, Weddings, and the Marriage Mystique / Geller (2001) 395.22 G318h
Inside the American Couple: New thinking/new Challenges (eBook) / Yalom (2002) NetLibrary
Marrriage and Same-sex Unions: A Debate (e Book) / Wardle (2003) NetLibrary
We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity / Hooks (2004) 305.38896073 H784w
Topic 7: Domestic Violence and Welfare Policies
Backlash against Welfare Mothers: Past and Present (eBook) / Reese (2005) NetLibrary
Domestic Crimes, Family Violence and Child Abuse: A Study of Contemporary American Society / Flowers (2000) 362.82920973 F644d
Domestic Violence / Johnson (2005) 362.8292 D668
Domestic Violence Sourcebook / Matthews (2004) 362.82920973 D668
Flat Broke with Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform / Hays (2003) 362.8392 H425f
Leaving Welfare: Employment and Well-being of Families That Left Welfare in the Post-entitlement Era (eBook) / Acs (2004) NetLibrary
Violence in the Home: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (eBook) / Kurst-Swanger (2003) NetLibrary

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