The Family in Global Perspective: A Gendered Journey

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SAGE, 2004 - 307 páginas

The Family in Global Perspective: A Gendered Journey examines the continually changing face of family life in the United States and from culture to culture. Written in an engaging style, the book provides a global viewpoint about family issues, enabling readers to think critically about family life in cultures beyond their own.

In The Family in Global Perspective, author Elaine J. Leeder uses various historical, theoretical, and comparative perspectives to develop a cross-cultural understanding of family life. The book examines a variety of family lives in western countries and contrasts them with those of families in parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. After comparing the history of the family in various parts of the globe, the author then looks at the impact of globalization on family structures; gendered behavior; intergenerational relationships; relationship dissolution; race, ethnicity and class issues; violence; and social policy.

The Family in Global Perspective is an ideal supplementary textbook for courses on marriage and the family in a variety of disciplines including Family Studies, Sociology, Social Work, Psychology, and Women's Studies.

is an ideal supplementary textbook for courses on marriage and the family in a variety of disciplines including Family Studies, Sociology, Social Work, Psychology, and Women's Studies.
 

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Contenido

List of Photographs xi
7
Defining Families in Global Terms
22
Theories on the Family
48
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
55
World Systems Theory
62
The Impact of Industrialization on Latin
100
Asian Families
109
History of the Family in the Semiperiphery and Periphery
115
Love Marriage and Their Dissolution
175
Intergenerational Relationships
200
Adolescence
221
Violence and the Family
236
The Future of the Family in Global Perspective
259
References
273
Additional Readings
287
Subject Index
295

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121
Gender as a Structural Condition
128
Theories About Gender Inequality
138
Where Does This Leave
145
93
302
About the Author 307
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Acerca del autor (2004)

Elaine Leeder is Professor of Sociology and Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Sonoma State University. She holds an MSW from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work of Yeshiva University, a Masters of Public Health from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell University. From 1977 to 2001, she taught in the sociology department at Ithaca College and coordinated the social work minor. She teaches courses on social change, family violence and the treatment and prevention of family violence and social policy. She has written books and articles on radical women′s history, treatment of child abuse perpetrators, domestic violence, and spirituality.

Información bibliográfica

TítuloThe Family in Global Perspective: A Gendered Journey
AutorElaine J. Leeder
Ediciónilustrada
EditorSAGE, 2004
ISBN0761928375, 9780761928379
Largo307 páginas
  
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