Gender Work and Family Reading List (January 2013)
SUGGESTED READING LIST FOR: GENDER, WORK, AND FAMILY EXAMINATION January 2013 Outline I. INTERSECTIONS & THEORY ...... 2 A. General ...... 2 B. Theoretical Perspectives ...... 3 i. Feminist Theory & Methodology ...... 3 ii. Intersectionality ...... 4 iii. Masculinities...... 5 iv. Economic Perspective ...... 5 II. POLICY ...... 6 A. General ...... 6 B. Work-Family Facilitation Policies ...... 6 C. Welfare & Childcare ...... 7 III. WORK ...... 8 A. Occupational Gender Segregation ...... 8 B. Gender Wage Gap ...... 10 C. Work-Family Conflict ...... 10 D. Non-Standard Work ...... 11 IV. FAMILY ...... 12 A. General ...... 12 B. Historical ...... 12 C. Cohabitation, Marital Unions, And Dissolutions ...... 13 D. Household Division of Labor ...... 14 E. Parenting & Childbearing ...... 16 F. Gay and Lesbian Families ...... 18 G. Military Families ...... 19
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I. INTERSECTIONS & THEORY
A. General Amott, Teresa and Julie Matthaei. 1991. Race, Gender and Work. Boston: South End Press. Pp. 3-28.
Bianchi, Suzanne M. and Melissa A. Milkie. 2010. “Work and Family Research in the First Decade of the 21st Century” Journal of Marriage and the Family 72: 705-25.
Bianchi, Suzanne M., and Daphne Spain. 1996. “Women, Work, and Family in America.” Population Bulletin 51: Washington DC: Population Reference Bureau.
Blair-Loy, Mary. 2003. “The Devotion to Work Schema.” Pp. 19-49 in Competing Devotions: Career and Family among Women Executives. Cambridge, MA: Harvard.
Blair-Loy, Mary. 2003. “The Devotion to Family Schema.” Pp. 50-90 in Competing Devotions: Career and Family among Women Executives. Cambridge, MA: Harvard.
Blair-Loy. 2001. “Cultural Constructions of Family Schemas: The Case of Women Finance Executives.” Gender and Society 15: 687-709.
Carr, Deborah. 2002. "The Psychological Consequences of Work-Family Trade-Offs for Three Cohorts of Men and Women." Social Psychology Quarterly 65: 103-24.
Cohen, Philip N., Matt L. Huffman, and Stefanie Knauer. 2009. “Stalled Progress? Gender Segregation and Wage Inequality Among Managers, 1980‐2000.” Work and Occupations 36: 318–42.
Cotter, David A., Joan M. Hermsen, and Reeve Vanneman. 2011. "The End of the Gender Revolution? Gender Role Attitudes from 1977 to 2008." The American Journal of Sociology 117: 259-89.
Cotter, David, Joan Hermsen, and Reeve Vanneman. 2004. “Gender Ineqauality at Work.” Pp 1-32 in The American People: Census 2000. NY: Russell Sage.
Damaske, Sarah. 2011. For the Family. New York: Oxford University Press.
Dill, Bonnie Thornton. 1994. “Preface.” Pp ix-xii in Across the Boundaries of Race and Class: An exploration of Work and Family among Black Female Domestic Servants. Garland Press.
England, Paula. 2010. “The Gender Revolution Uneven and Stalled.” Gender & Society 24: 149-66.
Goldin, Claudia. 2004. “The Long Road to the Fast Track: Career and Family.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 596: 20-35.
Hakim, Catherine. 2002. Lifestyle preferences as determinants of women's differentiated labour market careers. Work and Occupations 29: 428-59.
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Hochschild, Arlie. 1997. The Time Bind. New York: Metropolitan Books.
Jackmann, Mary. 1994. “The Search for Conflict.” Pp. 23-58 in The Velvet Glove: Paternalism and Conflict in Gender, Class, and race Relations. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Jackmann, Mary. 1994. “Ideology and Social Control.” Pp. 59-96 in The Velvet Glove: Paternalism and Conflict in Gender, Class, and race Relations. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Jacobs, Jerry and Kathleen Gerson. 2001. "Overworked Individuals or Overworked Families? Explaining Trends in Work, Leisure and Family Time." Work and Occupations 28: 40-63.
Johnson, Michael P., and Janel M. Leone. 2005. “The Differential Effects of Intimate Terrorism and Situational Couple Violence Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey.” Journal of Family Issues 26: 322-49.
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. 1977. Work and the Family in the United States: A Critical Review and Agenda for Research and Policy. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Perry-Jenkins, Maureen, Rena L. Repetti, and Ann C. Crouter. 2000. “Work and Family in the 1990s.” Journal of Marriage and the Family 62: 981-98.
Sayer, Liana, Philip Cohen and Lynne Casper. 2004. “Women, Men and Work.” Pp. 76-106 in The American People: Census 2000. NY: Russell Sage.
Schnittker, Jason. 2007. “Working More and Feeling Better: Women’s Health, Employment, and Family Life: 1974-2007. American Sociological Review 72:221-38.
Tilly, Louse A. and Joan W. Scott. 1989. Women, Work and Family. New York: Routledge.
B. Theoretical Perspectives i. Feminist Theory & Methodology Chafetz, Janet Saltzman. 1997. "Feminist Theory and Sociology: Underutilized Contributions for Mainstream Theory." Annual Review of Sociology 23: 97-120.
Collins, Patricia Hill, et al. 1995. “On West and Fenstermaker’s Doing Difference’.” Gender and Society 9: 491-514.
Deutsch, Francine M. 2007. “Undoing Gender.” Gender and Society 21, 1: 106-127.
Fenstermaker, Sarah and Candace West. 2002. “Introduction.” Pp. xiii-xvii in Doing Gender, Doing Difference: Inequality, Power, and Institutional Change. New York: Routledge.
Ferree, M.M., J. Lorber and B.B. Hess eds. 1999. Revisioning Gender. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. read introduction and organization of book
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Hartmann, Heidi. 1990. “Capitalism, Patriarchy and Job Segregation by Sex.” Signs 1: 137-169.
Lorber, Judith. 2001. Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics. Second ed. Los Angeles: Roxbury.
Martin, Patricia Yancey. 2004. “Gender as a Social Institution.” Social Forces 82: 1249-73.
Mohanty, Chandra. 2003. “Under Western Eyes Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles.” Pp. 221-253 in Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Durham: Duke University Press.
Naples, Nancy. 2004. “Feminism and Method.” Pp. 3-12 in Feminism and Method: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, and Activist Research. New York: Routledge.
Nicholson, Linda, ed. 1997. The Second Wave: A Reader in Feminist Theory. New York: Routledge. A collection of primary readings with excellent introductions to sections. Read section introductions
Ridgeway, Cecilia L. 2011. Framed by Gender: How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World. New York: Oxford University Press.
Ridgeway, Cecilia L. And Shelley J. Correll. 2004. “Unpacking the Gender System: A Theoretical Perspective on Gender Beliefs and Social Relations.” Gender & Society 18: 510-31.
Risman, Barbara J. 2004. “Gender as a Social Structure: Theory Wrestling with Activism.” Gender and Society 18: 429-450.
Smith, Dorothy. 1993. “Introduction and K is Mentally Ill: The Anatomy of a Factual Account.” Pp. 1-52 in Texts, Facts, and Femininity. New York: Routledge.
Smith, Dorothy. 1987. “The Everyday World as Problematic” Pp.105-145. The Everyday World As Problematic: Feminist Sociology. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
Thompson, Linda. 1992. “Feminist Methodology for Family Studies.” Journal of Marriage and Family 54: 3-18.
West, C. and S. Fenstermaker. 1995. “Doing Difference.” Gender and Society 9: 8-37.
Zinn, Maxine Baca. 1990. “Family, Feminism, and Race in America.” Gender and Society 4: 68-82. ii. Intersectionality Choo, Hae Yeon and Myra Marx Ferree. 2010. “Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research: A Critical Analysis of Inclusions, Interactions, and Institutions in the Study of Inequalities.” Sociological Theory 28: 129-49.
Collins, Patricia Hill. 1990. Black Feminist Thought. Unwin Hyman.
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Collins, Patricia Hill. 1998. "Some Group Matters: Intersectionality, Situated Standpoints, and Black Feminist Thought." Pp. 201-228 in Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice, edited by P. H. Collins. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Brewer, Rose M. 1993. “Theorizing Race, Class and Gender: The New Scholarship of Black Feminist Intellectuals and Black Women’s Labor.” Pp. 13-30 in Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women, edited by Stanlie M. James and Abena P.A. Busia. New York: Routledge.
Lorde, Audre. 1980. Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference.” in Sister Outsider. Trumansburg NY: The Crossing Press.
McCall, L. 2005. “The Complexity of Intersectionality.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 30: 1771-1800. iii. Masculinities Gardiner, Judith Kegan, ed. 2002. “Reenfleshing the Bright Boys; or How Male Bodies Matter to Feminist Theory.” Pp. 60-89 in Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory. New York: Columbia University Press. Also read the Introduction
Coltrane, Scott. 1994. “Theorizing Masculinities in Contemporary Social Science." Chapter 3 in Theorizing Masculinities, edited by H. Brod and M. Kaufman. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Connell, R.W. 2005. Masculinities, Second Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Ray, Rashawn. 2008. “The Professional Allowance: How Socioeconomic Status Characteristics Allow Some Men to Fulfill Family Role Expectations Better than other Men.” International Journal of Sociology of the Family 34: 327-51.
Ray, Rashawn, and Jason A. Rosow. 2010. “Getting Off and Getting Intimate: How Normative Institutional Arrangements Structure Black and White Fraternity Men’s Approaches Toward Women.” Men and Masculinities 12: 523-46.
Schrock, Douglas and Michael Schwalbe. 2009. "Men, Masculinity, and Manhood Acts." Annual Review of Sociology 35: 277-95.
Zinn, Maxine Baca. 1991. “Chicano Men and Masculinity.” Pp. XX-XX in The Sociology of Gender, edited by Laura Kramer. New York: St. Martin’s Press. iv. Economic Perspective Becker, Gary. 1991. Treatise on the Family. Cambridge. MA: Harvard University Press. Read the following chapters: Intro, Division of Labor in Households and Families (Chapter 2), The Demand for Children (Chapter 5), Family Background and the Opportunities of Children
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(Chapter 6), Imperfect Information, Marriage and Divorce (Chapter 10), The Evolution of the Family (Chapter 11)
Bergmann, Barbara. 1995. “Becker’s Theory of the Family: Preposterous Conclusions.” Feminist Economics 1: 141-50.
Blau, Francine, Marianne Ferber, and Ann Winkler. 2005. The Economics of Women, Men and Work. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.
Fox, Greer Litton, Michael L. Benson, Alfred A. DeMaris, and Judy Van Wyk. 2002. “Economic Distress and Intimate Violence: Testing Family Stress and Resources Theories.” Journal of Marriage and Family 64: 793-807.
Goldin, Claudia. 1990. Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women. NY: Oxford University Press.
Kaukinen, Catherine. 2004. “Status Compatibility, Physical Violence, and Emotional Abuse in Intimate Relationships.” Journal of Marriage and Family 66: 452–71.
II. POLICY
A. General Bergmann, Barbara R. 1998. "The Only Ticket to Equality: Total Androgyny, Male Style." Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 9: 75-86. Casper, Lynne, Sara McLanahan, and Irwin Garfinkel. 1994. “The Gender-Poverty Gap: What We Can Learn from Other Countries?” American Sociological Review. 59: 594-605.
Folbre, Nancy. 1995. Who Pays for the Kids? Who Pays for the Kids? Gender and the Structure of Constraint. New York: Routledge.
Gordon, Linda. 1995. “Thoughts on the Help for Working Parents Plan.” Feminist Economics 1:91-94.
Rothman, Barbara Katz. 1994. “Beyond Mothers and Fathers: Ideology in a Patriarchal Society.” Pp. 139- 160 in Mothering: Ideology, Experience and Agency, edited by Evelyn N. Glenn, Grace Chang and Linda R. Forcey. New York: Routledge.
B. Work-Family Facilitation Policies Duggan, Lynn. 1995. “Restacking the Deck: Family Policy and Women’s Fall-Back Position in Germany Before and After Unification.” Feminist Economics 1: 175-94.
Gornick, Janet C. and Marcia K. Meyers. 2003. “The United States in Cross National Perspective: Are Parents and Children Doing Better Elsewhere?” Pp. 58-83 (Chapter 3), “Reconciling the Conflicts: Toward a Dual-Earner—Dual-Career Society.” Pp. 84-111 (Chapter 4), “Providing Public Care:
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Child Care, Preschool, and Public Schooling.” Pp. 185-235 (Chapter 7), “Does Policy Matter? Linking Policies to Outcomes” Pp. 236-67 (Chapter 8), and “Developing Earner-Career Policies in the United States (Chapter 9) in Families That Work: Policies for Reconciling Parenthood and Employment. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Jacobs, Jerry and Janet Gornick. 2004. “American Workers in Cross-National Perspective.” Pp. 119-147 in The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality, edited by Jerry Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Pleck, Joseph. 1993. “Are Family-Supportive Employer Policies Relevant to men?” Pp. 217-237 in Men, Work, and Family, edited by Jane Hood New Delhi: Sage Publications.
Smolensky, Eugene and Jennifer A. Gootman, eds. 2001. Working Families and Growing Kids: Caring for Children and Adolescents. Washington DC: The National Academy Press. Read Chapters: “Policies to Support Working Families” (8); “Findings and Next Steps” (9);
C. Welfare & Childcare Baum, Charles L. 2002. "A Dynamic Analysis of the Effects of Child Care Costs on the Work Decisions of Low-Income Mothers with Infants." Demography 39: 139-64.
Bergmann, Barbara, and Heidi Hartmann. 1995. “A Welfare Reform Based on Help for Working Parents.” Feminist Economics 1: 85-99.
Bitler, M. P., J. B. Gelbach, H.W. Hoynes, and M. Zavony. 2004. “The Impact of Welfare Reform on Marriage and Divorce.” Demography 41: 213-36.
Campbell, Nancy Duff; Judith C. Appelbaum, Karin Martinson, Emily Martin. 2000. Be All That We Can Be: Lessons from the Military for Improving Our Nation’s Child Care System. Washington, DC: National Women’s Law Center.
Makkai, Toni. 1994. “Social Policy and Gender in Eastern Europe.” Pp. 188-205 in Gender Welfare States, edited by Diane Sainsbury. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
Kammerman, Sheila and A. J. Kahn. 1988. “Social Policy and Children in the United States and Europe.” Pp. 351-380 in The Vulnerable, edited by J.L. Palmer, T. Smeeding, and B.B. Torrey. Washington, D.C. The Urban Institute Press, pp.351-380.
Orloff, Ann Shola. 1999. "Motherhood, Work, and Welfare in the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia." Pp. 321-354 in State/Culture: State-Formation After the Cultural Turn, edited by G. Steinmetz. Cornell: Cornell University Press.
Reich, Jennifer. 2005. Fixing Families: Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare System. New York: Routledge.
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Smolensky, Eugene and Jennifer A. Gootman, eds. 2001. “Effects of Child Care.” Pp. 99-177 in Working Families and Growing Kids: Caring for Children and Adolescents. Washington DC: The National Academy Press.
Steir, Haya, Noah Lewin-Epstein, and Michael Braun. 2001. "Welfare Regimes, Family-Supportive Policies, and Women's Employment Along the Life-Course." American Journal of Sociology 106: 1731-60.
III. WORK
A. Occupational Gender Segregation Acker, Joan. 1990. “Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organization.” Gender & Society 4: 139-58.
Anker, Richard. 1997. “Theories of Occupational Segregation by Sex: An Overview.” International Labour Review 136: 315-39.
Bergmann, Barbara R. 2011. Sex segregation in the blue-collar occupations: Women’s choices or unremedied discrimination? Comment on England. Gender & Society 25: 88-93.
Bielby, W. and J. Baron. 1986. “Men and Women at Work: Sex Segregation and Statistical Discriminations.” American Journal of Sociology 91: 759-99.
Charles, M. 2003. "Deciphering Sex Segregation - Vertical and Horizontal Inequalities in Ten National Labor Markets." Acta Sociologica 46:267-87.
Cohen, Philip N. and Matt L. Huffman. “Occupational Segregation and the Devaluation of Women’s Work Across U.S. Labor Markets.” Social Forces 81:881-907.
Correll, Shelley, Stephen Benard, and In Paik. 2007. “Getting a Job: Is There a Motherhood Penalty?” American Journal of Sociology 112:1297–1338.
Cotter, David, Joann Defiore, Joan Hermsen, Brenda Kowalewski, and Reeve Vanneman. 1995. “Occupational Gender Desegregation in the 1980s.” Work and Occupation 22:3-21.
Cotter, David A., Jaon M. Hermsen, Seth Ovadia, and Reeve Vanneman. 2001. "The Glass Ceiling Effect." Social Forces 80: 655-81.
Goldin, Claudia. 1990. Understanding the Gender Gap. NY: Oxford University Press. Read Chapters 6,7, & 8 (Pp. 159-217)
Goldin, Claudia and Cecilia Rouse. 2000. "Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of "Blind" Auditions on Female Musicians." American Economic Review 90: 715-41.
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Hartmann, Heidi. 1976. “Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Job Segregation by Sex.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 1:137-69.
Higginbotham, Elizabeth. 1994. “Black Professional Women: Job Ceilings and Employment Sectors.” Pp. 113-31 in Women of Color in U.S. Society, edited by Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Huffman, Matt L., Philip N. Cohen and Jessica Pearlman. “Engendering Change: Organizational Dynamics and Workplace Gender Segregation, 1975-2005.” Administrative Science Quarterly 55(2):255- 277.
Jacobs, Jerry. 1989. “Long-Term Trends in Occupational Segregation by Sex.” American Journal of Sociology 95:160-73.
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. 1977. “Some Effects of Proportions on Group Life: Skewed Sex Ratios and Responses to Token Women.” American Journal of Sociology 82: 965-90.
Percheski, Christine. 2008. "Opting Out? Cohort Differences in Professional Women's Employment Rates From 1960 to 2005." American Sociological Review 73:497-517.
Petersen, Trond and Laurie Morgan. 1995. “Separate, and Unequal: Occupation-Establishment Sex Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap.” American Journal of Sociology 101: 329-65.
Pettit, Becky and Jennifer L. Hook. 2009. Gendered Tradeoffs : Family, Social Policy, and Economic Inequality in Twenty-One Countries. New York, N.Y.: Russell Sage Foundation.
Reskin, Barbara. 2000. “The Proximate Causes of Employment Discrimination.”Contemporary Sociology 29: 319-28.
Schilt, Kristen. 2010. Just One of the Guys? Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press.
Sorensen, Elaine. 1989. “The Crowding Hypothesis and Comparable Worth.” Journal of Human Resources 25: 55-89.
Stone, Pamela. 2007. Opting Out? : Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Williams, Christine L., Chandra Muller, and Kristine Kilanski. 2012. "Gendered Organizations in the New Economy." Gender & Society 26: 549-73.
Wright, Erik Olin, Janeen Baxter, and Gunn E. Birkelund. 1995. “The Gender Gap in Workplace Authority: A Cross-National Study.” American Sociological Review 60:407-35.
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B. Gender Wage Gap Blau, Francine and Lawrence Kahn. 1992. International Evidence on the Male-Female Wage Gap. National Bureau of Economic Research, working paper, Cambridge, MA.
Blau, Francine and Lawrence Kahn. 2007. “The Gender Pay Gap: Have Women Gone as Far as They Can?”Academy of Management Perspectives 21: 7-23.
Budig, Michelle and Paula England. 2001. “The Wage Penalty for Motherhood.” American Sociological Review 66: 204-25.
Cohen, Philip N. and Matt L. Huffman. “Working for the Woman? Female Managers and the Gender Wage Gap.” American Sociological Review 72:681-704.
Hodges, Melissa J. and Michelle J. Budig. 2010. “Who Gets the Daddy Bonus?: Organizational Hegemonic Masculinity and the Impact of Fatherhood on Earnings.” Gender & Society 24: 717- 745.
Goldin, Claudia. 1990. Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women. NY: Oxford University Press.
Mandel, Hadas and Michael Shalev. 2009. "How Welfare States Shape the Gender Pay Gap: A Theoretical and Comparative Analysis." Social Forces 87:1873-911.
Morgan, Laurie A. 1998. "Glass-Ceiling Effect or Cohort Effect? A Longitudinal Study of the Gender Earnings Gap for Engineers, 1982-1989." American Sociological Review 63:479-83.
Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald. 1995. “Sex Composition and Gendered Earnings Inequality: A Comparison of Job & Occupational Models.” Pp. xx-xx in Gender Inequality at Work edited by J.A. Jacos. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Waldfogel, Jane. 1998. "Understanding the "Family Gap" in Pay for Women with Children." Journal of Economic Perspectives 12:137-56.
C. Work-Family Conflict Esping-Andersen, Gosta. 2009. The Incomplete Revolution : Adapting to Women's New Roles. Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA: Polity.
Maume, David J. 2006. “Gender Differences in Restricting Work Effort Because of Family Responsibilities.” Journal of Marriage and Family 68: 859-869.
Melzer, Scott A. 2002. “Gender, Work, and Intimate Violence: Men’s Occupational Violence Spillover and Compensatory Violence.” Journal of Marriage and the Family 64: 820-832.
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Milkie, Melissa A., Sarah M. Kendig, Kei M. Nomaguchi, and Kathleen E. Denny. 2010. “Time With Children, Children’s Well-Being, and Work-Family Balance Among Employed Parents.” Journal of Marriage and Family 72: 1329-43.
Moe, Angela M., and Myrtle P. Bell. 2004. “Abject Economics: The Effects of Battering and Violence on Women’s Work and Employability.” Violence Against Women 10: 29–55.
Schieman, Scott, Meilissa A. Milkie, and Paul Glavin. 2009. “When Work Interferes with Life: Work- Nonwork Interference and the Influence of Work-Related Demands and Resources. American Sociological Review 74: 966-88.
Williams, Joan. 2010. Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Williams, Joan. 2000. Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It. Oxford U. Press.
D. Non-Standard Work Presser, Harriet. 2004. “The Economy Never Sleeps.” Contexts 3: 42-9.
Presser, Harriet B. 2004. “Employment in a 24/7 Economy: Challenges for the Family.” Pp. 46-76 in Fighting for Time: Shifting Boundaries of Work and Social Life, edited by C. F. Epstein and A. L. Kalleberg. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Presser, Harriet. 1995. “Are the Interests of Women Inherently at Odds with the Interests of Children or the Family? A Viewpoint.” Pp. 297-319 in Gender and Family Change in Industrialized Countries, edited by K.O. Mason and A.M. Jensen. Oxford: Oxford University Press/Clarendon.
Presser, Harriet B. 1989. “Can We Make Time for Children? The Economy, Work Schedules and Child Care.” Demography 26: 523-43.
E. Race/Ethnicity Chow, Ester Ngan-ling. 1994. “Asian American Women at Work.” Pp. 203-228 in Women of Color in U.S. Society, edited by Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnnie Thornton Dill. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Entwisle, Barbara and Feinian Chen. 2002. “Work Patterns Following a Birth in Urban and Rural China: A Longitudinal Study.” European Journal of Population 18: 99-119.
Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. 1992. “From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor.” Signs 18: 1-43.
Read, Jen’nan Ghazal and Philip N. Cohen. “One Size Fits All? Explaining U.S.-born and Immigrant Women’s Employment across Twelve Ethnic Groups.” Social Forces 85: 1713-34.
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Segura, Denise A. 1994. “Inside the Work Worlds of Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Women.” Pp. 95- 112 in Women of Color in U.S. Society, edited by Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Uttal, Lynet and Mary Tuominen. 1999. “Tenuous Relationships: Exploitation, Emotion, and Racial/Ethnic Significance in Paid Child Care Work.” Gender & Society 13: 758-80.
IV. FAMILY
A. General Bianchi, Suzanne M. and Lynne M. Casper. 2000. “American Families.” Pp. 3-43 in Population Bulletin A Publication of the Population Reference Bureau.
Booth, Alan, Karen Carver, and Douglas A. Granger. 2000. "Biosocial Perspectives on the Family." Journal of Marriage and Family 62: 1018-34.
Casper, Lynne M. and Suzanne M. Bianchi. 2002. Continuity and Change in the American Family. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Collier, Jane, Michelle Z. Rosaldo, and Sylvia Yanagisako. 1992. “Is there a Family? New Anthropological Views.” Pp. 71-81 in Rethinking the Family, edited by B. Thorne. New York: Longman.
Gerson, Kathleen. 2009. “Changing Lives, Resistant Institutions: A New Generation Negotiates Gender, Work, and Family Change.” Sociological Forum 24:735-53.
Edelman, Marian Wright. 1987. “The Black Family in America.” Pp. 1-22 in Families in Peril, edited by M. Edelman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Stack, Carol B. and Linda M. Burton. 1994. “Kinscripts: Reflections on Family, Generation, and Culture.” In Evelyn Nakano Glenn et al. (Eds.) Mothering: Ideology, Experience, and Agency. New York: Routledge.
Thorne, Barrie. 1992. “Feminist Rethinking of the Family: An Overview.” Pp. 1-24 in Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions, edited by Barrie Thorne, Marilyn Yalom. NY: Longman.
B. Historical Bumpass, Larry. 1990. “What’s Happening to the Family? Interaction Between Demographic and Institutional Change.” Demography 27: 483-93.
Coontz, Stephanie. 2004. “The World Historical Transformation of Marriage. Journal of Marriage and Family 66: 974-9.
Goldin, Claudia. 1992. Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women. New York: Oxford University Press. Read Chapter 1 and Chapter 2
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Pleck, Joseph H. 1990. “American Fathering in Historical Perspective.” Pp. 377-389 in Perspectives on the Family: History, Class and Feminism, edited by Christopher Carlson. Belmont: Wadsworth.
Tilly, Louse A. and Joan W. Scott. 1978. Women, Work and Family. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (Second Edition, 1987, published by Metheun).
C. Cohabitation, Marital Unions, And Dissolutions Brines, Julie and Kara Joyner. 1999. “The Ties That Bind: The Principles of Cohesion in Cohabitation and Marriage.” American Sociological Review 64: 333-55.
Bumpass, Larry, James Sweet, and Teresa Castro Martin. 1990. “Changing Patterns of Remarriage.” Journal of Marriage and Family 52:747-56.
Bumpass, L. and H. Lu. 2000. “Trends in Cohabitation and Implications for Children’s Family Contexts in the United States.” Population Studies 54: 29-41.
Cherlin, Andrew. 2009. The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Cherlin, A. 2004. “The Deinstitutionalization of Marriage.” Journal of Marriage and Family 66: 848-61.
Cherlin, Andrew, Linda Burton, Tera Hurt and Diane Purvin. 2004. “The Influence of Physical and Sexual Abuse on Marriage and Cohabitation.” American Sociological Review 69: 768-89.
Edin, Kathryn and Maria Kefalas. 2005. Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Gibson-Davis, Christina M., Kathryn Edin, and Sara McLanahan. 2005. “High Hopes but Even Higher Expectations: The Retreat from Marriage Among Low-Income Couples.” Journal of Marriage and the Family 67: 1301-12.
Harknett, Kristen and Sara McLanahan. 2004. “Racial and Ethnic Differences in Marriage after the Birth of a Child.” American Sociological Review 69: 790-811.
Kenney, Catherine and Sara McLanahan. 2006. “Why Are Cohabiting Relationships More Violent than Marriages?” Demography 43: 127-140.
Macdonald, Cameron L. 2010. Shadow Mothers : Nannies, Au Pairs, and the Micropolitics of Mothering. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Manning, Wendy D. and Pamela J. Smock. 2002. “First Comes Cohabitation and then Comes Marriage?” Journal of Family Issues 23: 1065-1087.
Matthijs, Kalmijn. 2007. “Gender Differences in the Effects of Divorce, Widowhood and Remarriage on Intergenerational Support: Does Marriage Protect Fathers?” Social Forces 85: 1079-1104.
Nock, Steven L. 1998. Marriage in Men’s Lives. Oxford University Press.
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Oppenheimer, Valerie K. 2000. "The Continuing Importance of Men's Economic Position in Marriage Formation." Pp. 283-301 in The Ties That Bind: Perspectives on Marriage and Cohabitation, Editor Linda Waite. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
Oppenheimer, Valerie K. 1988. “A Theory of Marriage Timing.” American Journal of Sociology 94: 563- 591.
Quian, Zhenchao, Daniel Lichter, Leanna Mellott. 2005. “Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing, Marital Prospects and Mate Selection.” Social Forces 84: 473-91.
Sayer, Liana and Suzanne M. Bianchi. 2000. “Women’s Economic Independence and the Probability of Divorce: A Review and Reexamination.” Journal of Family Issues 21: 906-943.
Sayer, Liana C., Paula England, Paul D. Allison, and Nicole Kangas. 2011. "She Left, He Left: How Employment and Satisfaction Affect Women’s and Men’s Decisions to Leave Marriages." American Journal of Sociology 116: 1982-2018.
Schwartz, Christine and Robert Mare. 2005 “Trends in Educational Assortative Marriage from 1940 to 2003.” Demography 42: 621-46.
Smock, P. 2000. “Cohabitation in the United States: An Appraisal of Research Themes, Findings, and Implications.” Annual Review of Sociology 26: 1-20.
Smock, Pamela J. 2004. “The Wax and Wane of Marriage: Prospects for Marriage in the 21st Century.” Journal of Marriage and the Family 66: 966-973.
Stacey, Judith. 2011. Unhitched: Love, Marriage, and Family Values From West Hollywood to Western China. New York: New York University Press.
Sweeney, Megan M. (2002). “Two Decades of Family Change: The Shifting Economic Foundations of Marriage.” American Sociological Review 67: 132-47.
Waite, Linda. 1995. “Does Marriage Matter?” Demography 32:483-508.
D. Household Division of Labor Bergmann, Barbara. 1992. “The Job of Housewife.” Pp 171-184 in Feminist Philosophies, edited by J.A. Kournany, J.P. Sterva, and R. Tong. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall (reprinted from Bergman, The Economic Emergence of Women).
Bianchi, Suzanne M. 2011. “Family Change and Time Allocation in American Families.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 638: 21-44.
Bianchi, Suzanne M., Liana C. Sayer, Melissa A. Milkie, and John P. Robinson. 2012. “Housework: Who Did, Does or Will Do It, and How Much Does It Matter?” Social Forces 91: 55-63.
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Bianchi, Suzanne M., John Robinson, Liana Sayer, and Melissa Milkie. 2000. “Is Anyone Doing the Housework? Trends in the Gender Division of Household Labor.” Social Forces 79: 191-228.
Bittman, M., England, P., Folbre, N., Sayer, L., & Matheson, G. 2003. “When Does Gender Trump Money? Bargaining and Time in Household Work.” American Journal of Sociology 109: 186-214.
Brines, Julie. 1994. “Economic Dependency, Gender, and Division of Labor at Home.” American Journal of Sociology 100: 652-88.
Chafetz, Janet Saltzman. 1991. “The Gender Division of Labor and the Reproduction of Female Disadvantage.” Pp. 74-94 in Gender, Family and Economy: The Triple Overlap, edited by R. Blumberg. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Chen, Feinian. 2005. “Employment Transitions and the Household Division of Labor in China.” Social Forces 84: 831-51.
Coltrane, Scott and Masako Ishii-Kuntz. 1992. “Men’s Housework: A Life Course Perspective.” Journal of Marriage and Family 54:43-58.
DiLeonardo, Micaela. 1992. “The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship.” Pp. 246-61 in Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions, edited by B. Thorne. New York: Longman.
Fuwa, Makiko. 2004. “Macro-level Gender Inequality and the Division of Household Labor in 22 Countries” American Sociological Review 69: 751-67.
Geist, Claudia and Philip N. Cohen. “Headed Toward Equality? Housework Change in Comparative Perspective.” Journal of Marriage and Family 73: 832-44.
Glenn, Evelyn N. 2010. Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Gupta, Sanjiv. 2007. "Autonomy, Dependence, or Display? The Relationship Between Married Women's Earnings and Housework." Journal of Marriage and Family 69: 399-417.
Hochschild, Arlie, and Anne Machung. 2012. The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home. Revised. Penguin Books.
Lennon, Mary C. and Sarah Rosenfeld. 1994. “Relative Fairness and the Division of Housework: The Importance of Options.” American Journal of Sociology 100: 506-31.
Presser, Harriet B. 1994. “Employment Schedules and the Division of Household Labor by Gender.” American Sociological Review 59: 348-64.
Raley, Sara B., Marybeth J. Mattingly, and Suzanne M. Bianchi. 2006. “How Dual Are Dual-Income Couples? Documenting Change from 1970 to 2001.” Journal of Marriage and Family 68: 11-28.
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Reimann, Renate. 1997. Does Biology Matter? Lesbian Couples' Transition to Parenthood and their Division of Labor. Gender and Society 20: 153-85.
Sayer, L. C. 2005. “Gender, Time and Inequality: Trends in Women’s and Men’s Paid Work, Unpaid Work and Free Time.” Social Forces 84: 285-303.
Sayer, Liana C. and Leigh Fine. 2011. “Racial-Ethnic Differences in U.S. Married Women’s and Men’s Housework.” Social Indicators Research 101: 259-65.
South, Scott and Glenna Spitze. 1994. “Housework in Marital and Nonmarital Households.” American Sociological Review 59: 327-47.
Tichenor, Veronica J. 1999. "Status and Income as Gendered Resources: The Case of Marital Power." Journal of Marriage and the Family 61: 638-50.
E. Parenting & Childbearing Allen, Sarah M. and Alan J. Hawkins. 1999. "Maternal Gatekeeping: Mothers' Beliefs and Behaviors That Inhibit Greater Father Involvement in Family Work." Journal of Marriage and the Family 61: 199- 212.
Amato, Paul R. and Joan G. Gilbreth. 1999. "Nonresident Fathers and Children's Well-Being: A Meta- Analysis." Journal of Marriage and the Family 61: 557-73.
Arendell, T. 2000. “Conceiving and Investigating Motherhood: The Decade’s Scholarship.” Journal of Marriage and Family 62: 1192-1207.
Baum, Charles L. 2002. "A Dynamic Analysis of the Effects of Child Care Costs on the Work Decisions of Low-Income Mothers with Infants." Demography 39: 139-64.
Becker, Gary, and Robert Nachtigall. 1994. 'Born to be a Mother': The Cultural Construction of Risk in Infertility Treatments in the U.S. Social Science and Medicine 39: 507-18.
Bianchi, Suzanne M. 2000. “Maternal Employment and Time with Children: Dramatic Change or Surprising Continuity?” Demography 37: 139-54.
Cherlin, Andrew J. 1988. “The Weakening Link Between Marriage and the Care of Children.” Family Planning Perspectives 20: 302-06.
Collins, Patricia Hill. 1999. “Will the Real Mother Please Stand Up?” Pp. 266-82 in Revisioning Women, Health and Healing: Feminist, Cultural, and Technoscience Perspectives, edited by A. E. Clarke and V. Olesen. New York: Routledge.
Collins, Patricia HIll. 1994. “Shifting the Center: Race, Class and Feminist Theorizing about Motherhood.” Pp 45-65 in Mothering: Ideology, Experience and Agency, edited by Evelyn N. Glenn, Grace Chang and Linda R. Forcey. New York: Routledge.
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Demos, John. 1986. " The Changing Faces of Fatherhood." Pp. 41-67 in Past, Present, and Personal: The Family and the Live Course in American History. New York: Oxford University Press.
Eggebeen, David J. and Chris Knoester. 2001. “Does Fatherhood Matter for Men?” Journal of Marriage and the Family 63: 381-93.
Graefe, D. and D. Lichter. 1999. “Life Course Transitions of American Children: Parental Cohabitation, Marriage, and Single Motherhood.” Demography 36: 205-17.
Furstenberg, Frank F. 1988. “Good Dads-Bad Dads: The Two Faces of Fatherhood.” Pp. 193-218 in The Changing American Family and Public Policy, edited by Andrew J. Cherlin. Washington D.C.: The Urban Institute.
Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. 1994. “Social Construction of Mothering: A Thematic Overview.” Pp. 1-32 in Mothering: Ideology, Experience and Agency, edited by Evelyn N. Glenn, Grace Chang and Linda R. Forcey. New York: Routledge.
Goode, William J. 1982. "Why Men Resist." Pp. 287-310 in Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions, edited by Barrie Thorne and M. Yalom. New York: Longman.
Graefe, D. and D. Lichter. 1999. “Life Course Transitions of American Children: Parental Cohabitation, Marriage, and Single Motherhood.” Demography 36: 205-17.
Hamilton, Laura, Simon Cheng, and Brian Powell. 2007. “Adoptive Parents, Adaptive Parents: Evaluating the Importance of Biological Ties for Parental Investment” American Sociological Review 72: 95- 116.
Hays, Sharon. 1996. The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Hertz, Rosanna. 2002. The Father as an Idea: A Challenge to Kinship Boundaries by Single Mothers. Symbolic Interaction 25: 1-31.
Hofferth, Sandra L. 2006. “Residential Father Family Type and Child Well-being: Investment Versus Selection.” Demography 43: 53-77.
Lareau, Annette. 2002. "Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families." American Sociological Review 67: 747-76.
McLanahan, Sara and Gary Sanderfur. 1994. Growing up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Read Chapters: Why we care about Single Parenthood (Pp. 1-18); How Father’s Absence lowers Children’s Well-being.
McLanahan, S. 2004. “Diverging Destinies: How Children Are Faring under the Second Demographic Transition.” Demography 41: 607-27.
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Pleck, Joseph H. and Jeffrey L. Stueve. 2001. "Time and Paternal Involvement." Pp. 205-26 in Minding the Time on Family Experience: Emerging Perspectives and Issues, Editor K. J. Daly. New York: JAI Press.
Popenoe, David. 1996. “The Essential Father." Pp. 164-188 in Life Without Father: Compelling New Evidence that Fatherhood and Marriage are Indispensable for the Good of Children and Society. New York: The Free Press.
Raley, Sara and Suzanne Bianchi. 2006. “Gender of Children: Effects on Children, Parents and Family Processes.” Annual Review of Sociology 32: 401-21.
Rossi, Alice S. 1984. “Gender and Parenthood.” American Sociological Review 49: 1-19.
Sayer, Liana, Suzanne Bianchi, and John Robinson. 2004. “Are Parents Investing Less in Children? Trends in Mothers’ and Fathers' Time with Children.” American Journal of Sociology 110: 1-43.
Short, Susan, Frances Goldscheider, and Berna Torr. 2006. “Less Help for Mother: The Decline in Coresidential Female Support for the Mothers of Young Children, 1880-2000.” Demography 43: 617-31.
Townsend, Nicholas W. 2002. The Package Deal: Marriage, Work, and Fatherhood in Men’s Lives. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Read chapters: “Contradictions and Complications” (Pp. 1-29); “The Four Facets of Fatherhood” (Pp. 50-80).
Yeung, W. J. , Pamela E. Davis-Kean, John F. Sandberg, and Sandra L. Hofferth. 2001. "Children’s Time With Fathers in Intact Families." Journal of Marriage and Family 63: 136-54.
F. Gay and Lesbian Families Biblarz, Timothy J. and Evren Savci. 2010. “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Families.” Journal of Marriage and Family 72: 480-97.
Biblarz, Timothy J. and Judith Stacey. 2010. “How Does the Gender of Parents Matter?” Journal of Marriage and Family 72: 3-22.
Carrington, Christoper. 1999. “Conclusion: Domesticity and the Political Economy of Lesbigay Families.” Pp. 207-230 in No Place Like Home: Relationships and Family Life among Lesbians and Gay Men. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Chambers, David. 2001. “What If? The Legal Consequences of Marriage and the Legal Needs of Lesbian and Gay Male Couples.” Pp. 306-337 in Queer Families, Queer Politics, edited by Mary Bernstein and Renate Reimann. New York: Columbia University Press.
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G. Military Families Booth, Bradford, Mady Wechsler Segal, and D. Bruce Bell with James A. Martin, Morten G. Ender, and John Nelson. 2007. What We Know About Army Families: 2007 Update. Fairfax, VA: ICF International. Prepared for U.S. Army Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Command.
Segal, Mady W. 1986. “The Military and the Family as Greedy Institutions.” Armed Forces and Society 13: 9-38.
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