References for Families

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Amussen, Susan D. (1988). An Ordered Society. Gender and Class in Early Modern England. Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell.

Apple, Rima D., and Janet Gordon (1997). Mothers & Motherhood: Readings in American History. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

Blankenhorn, David (1995). Fatherless America: Confronting our Most Urgent Social Problem. New York: Basic Books.

Carnes, M.C. (1989). Sacred Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Cohen, Lisbeth (1990). Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Cott, Nancy F. (1977). The Bonds of Womanhood - "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Dally, Ann (1983). Inventing Motherhood: The Consequences of an Ideal. New York: Schocken Books.

Davidoff, Lenore, & Hall, Catherine (1987). Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Degler, Carl N. (1980). At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press.

Demos, John (1986). "The Changing Faces of Fatherhood." In J. Demos (Ed.), Past, Present, and Personal: The Family and the Life Course in American History. New York: Oxford University Press.

Ditz, Toby L. (1986). Property and Kinship: Inheritance in Early Connecticut, 1750-1820. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Fischer, David H. (1989). Albion's Seed. Four British Folkways in America. New York: Oxford University Press.

Fliegelman, Jay (1982). Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American Revolution Against Patriarchal Authority, 1750-1800. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Frank, S. M. (1992). "Rendering Aid and Comfort: Images of Fatherhood in the Letters of Civil War Soldiers from Massachusetts and Michigan." Journal of Social History, 26, 5-31.

Furstenberg, Frank F., Jr. (1988). "Good Dads - Bad Dads: Two Faces of Fatherhood. In A.J. Cherlin (ed.), The Changing American Family and Public Policy (pp. 193-218). Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.

Genevie, L., & Margolies, E. (1987). The Motherhood Report. New York: Macmillan.

Gerson, K. (1993). No Man's Land, Men's Changing Commitments to Family and Work. New York: Basic Books.

Glenn, Evelyn Nakano, Chang, Grace, and Forcey, Linda Rennie (eds.) (1994). Mothering: Ideology, Experience, and Agency. New York: Routledge.

Gordon, Linda (1988). Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence, Boston, 1880-1960. New York: Viking.

Greene, Jack P. (1988). Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Greven, Philip J. (1970). Four Generations: Population, Land, and Family in Colonial Andover, Massachusetts. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.

Greven, Philip J. (1977). The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child-rearing, Religious Experience, and the Self in Early America. New York: Knopf.

Greven, Philip J. (1991). Spare the Child: The Religious Roots of Punishment and the Psychological Impact of Physical Abuse. New York: Knopf.

Griswold, Robert L (1993). Fatherhood in America: A History. New York: Basic Books.

Hacking, Ian (1999). The Social Construction of What? Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Hareven, Tamara K. (1982). Family Time and Industrial Time: The Relationship between the Family and Work in a New England Industrial Community. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Hoffert, S. D. (1989). Private Matters: American Attitudes toward Childbearing and Infant Nurture in the Urban North, 1800-1960. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Kerber, Linda K. (1980). Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Kimmel, Michael S. (Ed.). (1987). Changing Men: New Directions in Research on Men and Masculinity. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage.

Kimmel, Michael S. (1996). Manhood in America: A History. New York: Free Press.

Koehler, Lyle (1980). A Search for Power: The "Weaker" Sex in Seventeenth-century New England. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press.

Kulikoff, A. (1986). Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Levy, Barry (1988). Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley. New York: Oxford University Press.

Lewis, Jan (1983). The Pursuit of Happiness: Family and Values in Jefferson's Virginia. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Lupton, Deborah, and Lesley Barclay (1997). Constructing Fatherhood: Discourses and Experiences. London: Sage Publications.

McMillen, Sally G. (1990). Motherhood in the Old South: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Infant Rearing. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

May, Elaine Tyler (1995). Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness. New York: Basic Books.

Mintz, Steven (1983). A Prison of Expectations: The Family in Victorian Culture. New York: New York University Press.

Mintz, Steven (1992). "Children, Families, and the State: American Family Law in Historical Perspective." Denver University Law Review, 69, 639-40.

Mintz, Steven & Kellogg, Susan (1988). Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life. New York: Free Press.

Moran, Gerald F. (1991). "Adolescence in Colonial America." In R. Lerner, A.C. Petersen, & J. Brooks?Gunn, (eds.), Encyclopedia of Adolescence (pp. 164-167). New York: Garland.

Morgan, Edmund S. (1965). The Puritan Family (rev. ed.). New York: Harper & Row.

Norton, Mary Beth (1996). Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society. New York: Knopf.

Norton, Mary Beth (1980). Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800. Boston: Little, Brown.

Ozment, S. E. (1983). When Fathers Ruled. Family Life in Reformation Europe. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press.

Parke, Robert D. (1996). Fatherhood. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Parke, Robert D., & Stearns, Peter N. (1993). "Fathers and Childrearing." In G. Elder, J. Modell, & R. D. Parke, (Eds.), Children in Time and Place (pp. 147-150). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Peiss, Kathy (1986). Cheap Amusements: Working women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Piore, M.J. (1979). Birds of Passage: Migrant Labor, Industrial Societies. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Pleck, Elizabeth H. (1987). Domestic Tyranny: The Making of Social Policy against Family Violence from Colonial Times to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press.

Pleck, Joseph, (1987). "American Fathering in Historical Perspective." In M. Kimmel (Ed.), Changing Men (pp. 83-97). Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage.

Popenoe, David (1996). Life without Father. New York: Free Press.

Pugh, D. G. (1983). Sons of Liberty: The Masculine Mind in Nineteenth-century America. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.

Reynolds, David (1995). Walt Whitman's America. New York: Knopf.

Rorabaugh, W. J. (1979). The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition. New York: Oxford University Press.

Rosenzweig, Roy (1983). Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Rothman, Sheila M. (1978). Woman's Proper Place: A History of Changing Ideals and Practices, 1870 to the Present. New York: Basic Books.

Rotundo, Anthony (1985). "American Fatherhood: A Historical Perspective." American Behavioral Scientist; XXIX 7-25.

Rotundo, Anthony (1993). American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era. New York: Basic Books.

Rutman, D. B., & Rutman, A. H. (1984). A Place in Time: Middlesex County, Virginia, 1650-1750. New York: Norton.

Ryan, Mary P. (1981). Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Universtiy Press.

Schochet, G. J. (1975). Patriarchalism in Political Thought: The Authoritarian Family and Political Speculation and Attitudes Especially in Seventeenth-century England. New York: Basic Books.

Schor, J. (1991). The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure. New York: Basic Books.

Shammas, C., Salmon, M., & Dahlin, M. (eds.). (1987). Inheritance in America: From Colonial Times to the Present. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.

Sklar, Kathryn K. (1973). Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.

Stearns, Peter N. (1990). Be a Man!: Males in Modern Society (2nd ed.). New York: Holmes & Meier.

Stearns, Peter N. (1991). "Fatherhood in Historical Perspective: The Role of Social Change." In F.W. Bozett & S.M.H. Hanson (eds.), Fatherhood and Families in Cultural Context (pp. 28-52). New York: Springer.

Tentler, L. W. (1979). Wage-earning Women: Industrial Work and Family Life in the United States, 1900-1930. New York: Oxford University Press.

Thernstrom, Stephan (1984). A History of the American People. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Thurer, Shari L. (1994). Myths of Motherhood: How Culture Reinvents the Good Mother. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher (1982). Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750. New York: Knopf.

U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Policy Planning and Research. (1965). The Negro Family: The Case for National Action. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Wilson, Lisa (1999). Ye Heart of a Man: The Domestic Life of Men in Colonial New England. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Wilson, William Julius (1987). The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Wood, Gordon S. (1992). The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York: Knopf.

Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. (1982). Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South. New York: Oxford University Press.