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The widely-popular anthology Shifting the Center: Understanding Contemporary Families is a carefully selected collection of the most important family scholars and topics in the study of the contemporary family today. In the new Fifth Edition, Susan J. Ferguson includes articles from the leading family journals and excerpts from a number of classic book-length studies. The readings address the intersectional nature of families, illustrate well how the institution of the family is changing, and push students’ critical reading and thinking skills.
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Preface

Part I. INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF FAMILIES
1. The Family in Question: What is the Family? Is It Universal?
Diana Gittins
2. Feminist Rethinking from Racial-Ethnic Families
Maxine Baca Zinn
*3. LGBTQ Families
Nancy Mezey
*4. We Can’t Build Our Social System around Marriage Anymore
Philip N. Cohen

Part II. HISTORICAL CHANGES AND FAMILY VARIATIONS
5. Historical Perspectives on Family Diversity
Stephanie Coontz
6. Fictive Kin, Paper Sons, and Compradazgo
Bonnie Thornton Dill
7. The Politics of Theorizing Black Families: Old Debates, New Directions
Shirley Hill
*8. Immigrant Families and the Shifting Color Line in the United States
Karen D. Pyke
*9. Multigenerational Punishment: Shared Experiences of Undocumented Immigration Status within Mixed-Status Families
Laura E. Enriquez

Part III. COURTSHIP, DATING, AND POWER
10. Gendered Sexuality in Young Adulthood
Laura Hamilton and Elizabeth A. Armstrong
*11. “We Can Write the Scripts Ourselves”: Queer Challenges to Heteronormative Courtship Practices
Ellen Lamont
12. Arranged Marriages: What’s Love Got to Do with It?
Monisha Pasupathi

Part IV. MARRIAGE, COHABITATION, AND PARTNERSHIP
13. The Deinstitutionalization of American Marriage
Andrew J. Cherlin
14. Marriage: The Good, the Bad, and the Greedy
Naomi Gerstel and Natalia Sarkisian
*15. Marital Status and Perceived Discrimination among Transgender People
Hui Liu and Lindsey Wilkinson
16. Clashing Dreams: Highly Educated Overseas Brides and Low-Wage U.S. Husbands
Hung Cam Thai
17. Families Formed Outside of Marriage
Judith A. Seltzer
*18. Older Adults Developing a Preference for Living Apart Together
Jacquelyn J. Benson and Marilyn Coleman
*19. Intimacy and Emotion Work in Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Relationships
Debra Umberson, Mieke Beth Thomeer and Amy C. Lodge

Part V. MOTHERHOOD AND FATHERHOOD
20. Shifting the Center: Race, Class, and Feminist Theorizing about Motherhood
Patricia Hill Collins
21. Mothering From a Distance: Emotions, Gender, and Intergenerational Relations in Filipino Transnational Families
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
*22. Facets of Agency in Stories of Transforming from Childless by Choice to Mother
Julia Moore
23. Fathering: Paradoxes, Contradictions, and Dilemmas
Scott Coltrane
*24. Diversity and Meaning in the Study of Black Fatherhood: Toward a New Paradigm
Maria S. Johnson and Alford A. Young, Jr.
25. The Father as an Idea
Rosanna Hertz

Part VI. PARENTS AND PARENTING, CHILDREN AND CHILDREARING
26. Not-so-Nuclear Families: Class, Gender, and Networks of Care
Karen V. Hansen
*27. Emotional Life on the Market Frontier
Arlie Hochschild
28. Out of Sorts: Adoption and (Un)Desirable Children
Katherin M. Flower Kim
*29. The Gendered Buffet: LGBTQ Parents Resisting Heteronormativity
Kate Henley Averett
30. Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families
Annette Lareau
31. Consumption as Care and Belonging: Economies of Dignity in Children’s Daily Lives
Allison J. Pugh

Part VII. INTERGENERATIONAL FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
*32. Intergenerational Relationships in Late Life: The Elderly, Their Adult Children, and Their Grandchildren
Roberta L. Coles
*33. When the Nest Doesn’t Empty
Kathleen S. Newman
34. My Mother’s Hip: Lessons from the World of Eldercare
Luisa Margolies

Part VIII. DIVORCE, REMARRIAGE, AND BLENDED FAMILIES
*35. Remarriage and Stepfamilies: Strategic Sites for Family Scholarship in the 21st Century
Megan M. Sweeney
*36. The Stuff at Mom’s House and the Stuff at Dad’s House: The Material Consumption of Divorce for Adolescents
Caitlyn Collins and Michelle Janning
*37. The Effects of Religion on Remarriage Among American Women: Evidence from the National Survey of Family Growth
Susannah M. Brown and Jeremy Porter
*38. Boundary Ambiguity in Gay Stepfamilies: Perspectives of Gay Biological Fathers and Their Same-Sex Partners
David A. Jenkins

Part IX. FAMILIES AND VIOLENCE
39. Gender, Diversity, and Violence: Extending the Feminist Framework
Kersti A. Yllö
40. Lifting the Veil of Secrecy: Domestic Violence Against South Asian Women in the United States
Satya P. Krishnan, Malahat Baig-Amin, Louisa Gilbert, Nabila El-Bassel, and Anne Waters
*41. Making the Invisible Visible: LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence
Adam M. Messinger
*42. Abuse Across the Life Course: Elder Abuse
Angela Hattery and Earl Smith

Part X. FAMILIES, WORK, AND CAREWORK
*43. There’s No Such Thing as Having It All: Gender, Work, and Care in an Age of Insecurity
Kathleen Gerson
44. Fast-Track Women and the “Choice” to Stay Home
Pamela Stone and Meg Lovejoy
45. Negotiating Work and Parenting over the Life Course: Mexican Family Dynamics in a Binational Context
Joanna Dreby
*46. Great Expectations? Working- and Middle-Class Cohabitors’ Expected and Actual Divisions Of Housework
Amanda J. Miller and Daniel L. Carlson
47. No Place Like Home: The Division of Domestic Labor in Lesbigay Families
Christopher Carrington
48. Creating a Caring Society
Evelyn Nakano Glenn

Part XI. FAMILIES AND POVERTY
*49. Severe Deprivation in America: An Introduction
Matthew Desmond
*50. Understanding The Dynamics of $2-A-Day Poverty in the United States
H. Luke Shaefer, Kathryn Edin, and Elizabeth Talbert
*51. Morality and Work-Family Conflict in the Lives of Poor and Low-Income Women
Judith Hennesey
52. Unmarried with Children
Kathyrn Edin and Maria Kefalas