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Class notes are available by clicking on the date for the class meeting.
Information about where to get the readings is also available
here.
Introduction
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What is happening? What do we talk about
when we talk about "family"? Cultural landscapes of the
family: patterned controversies and dueling hegemonies |
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- Whitehead, Barbara "Dan Quayle was right." Atlantic
Monthly, April 1993.
recommended:
- Bumpass, Larry "What's happening to the family? Interactions
between demographic and institutional change." Demography
27: 483-498.1990
- Varenne, Hervé "Love and liberty: The contemporary
American family" (in History of the family.
Edited by A. Burguiere, C. Klapisch-Zuber, M. Segalen and F.
Zonabend. London: Polity Press, (1996)
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The culturing of nature: Incest and parental
love
- Daly, Martin and Margo Wilson The truth about Cinderella:
A Darwinian view of parental love. New Haven, CT: Yale University
Press, 1998.
- Lévi-Strauss The elementary structures of kinship
Chapters 1,2,3 Tr. by J. Bell and J. von Sturmer. Boston:
Beacon Press. 1969 [1947].
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The labor of birth: The social
construction of biological processes
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- Jordan, Brigitte. Birth in Four Cultures. Prospect
Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1993. (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, 7)
recommended:
- Cotter, Mary Labor negotiations: A study of interactions
around pre-natal care and childbirth. Doctoral dissertation.
New York: Teachers College, 1996.
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Infancy and language acquisition: Learning,
participation and the children's struggle as they play and resist
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- Ochs, Elinor and
Bambi Schieffelin "Language acquisition and socialization:
Three developmental stories and their implications." in Culture
theory. Edited by R. Shweder and R. LeVine, 276-320. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1984
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Childhood, caretaking and nannies:
The sociology of childhood: The complexities of approaching childhood
as a joint construction by children, parents and those who control
parents (other parents near and far; the State).
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- Boon, James "Anthropology and nannies." Man
9: 137-39. 1974
- Drummond, Lee "Transatlantic nanny: notes on a comparative
semiotics of the family." American ethnologist
5: 30-43. 1978
recommended:
- Scheper-Hughes, Nancy "(M)Other love" Death without
weeping. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1992
- Netting, R., R. Wilk, and E. Arnould "Introduction"
and Chapter One (in Households, ed. by Netting,
R., R. Wilk, and E. Arnould. Berkeley, CA: University of California
Press. 1984
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Courtship: The dilemmas of adolescence:
gender, love, and the first steps towards marriage and divorce on
a stage (schools and colleges) setting their soon to be achieved social
position.
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- Canaan, Joice "Why a 'slut' is a 'slut': Cautionary tales
of middle-class teenage girls' morality." in Symbolizing
America, ed. by H. Varenne, 184-208. Lincoln, NE: University
of Nebraska Press. 1986.
- Holland, Dorothy, and Debra Skinner "The cultural models
behind Americans' talk about gender types," in Cultural
models in language and thought, ed. by D. Holland and N.
Quinn, 78-111. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1987
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Family education and social reproduction:
Class struggles through families and schools
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- Varenne, Hervé "Families, education and the State
in America." New York: IUME, Teachers College, Columbia University
(pp. 6-37)
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Love and divorce: Cultural possibilities
in America: expansions and change
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- Weston, Kath Families we choose: Lesbians, gays, kinship.
New York: Columbia University Press. 1991
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Cycles of exchange:
The extension of family and its possible functions in the
modern world.
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- Stack, Carol All our kin. New York: Harper and
Row. 1975
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Couple talk: Cultural
justifications for marriage and divorce. Everyday interaction and
its consequences.
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- Varenne, Hervé "Talk and real talk: The voices of silence
and the voices of power in American family life." Cultural
Anthropology 2: 369-394. 1987
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Family policy in the United States:
Independence, control, resistance, regulation
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