(The books are available in the library reserve under the call number indicated. The articles on personal reserve are available by asking by the number under "Varenne")
[starred items are the required readings and can be purchased in Teachers College Bookstore; the others are recommended or contain some of the articles also on personal reserve]
| * | Daly & Wilson | Truth about Cinderella | HQ759.92 .D35 1999 | 
| Holland & Quinn | Cultural models ... | P35 .C8 1987 | |
| * | Furstenberg | Managing to make it | |
| * | Goody | Production and reproduction | GN479 .G59 | 
| * | Jordan | Birth in four cultures | GT2460 .J67 1993 | 
| Kaufman | ... and a time to die | R726.8 K385 2055 | Lareau, Annette | Home advantage | LC225.3 .L37 1989 | 
| Ochs | Culture and language development | P 118 .O24 1988 | |
| Stack, Carol | All our kin | E 185 .96 .S697 | |
| * | Weston | Families we choose | HQ76.3.U5 W48 1991 | 
| * | Wilson | More than just race | 
| Berreman | "Himalayan Polyandry" | |
| Lévi-Strauss | "The family" | |
| Murdock | "The Nuclear Family" | |
| Parsons | "The family" | |
| Shimkin & al. | "The Black extended family" |