Brave New Families - by Judith Stacey (Paperback)

About the Book

Sociologist Judith Stacey has added a new preface to her classic study of how the traditional nuclear family has been supplanted by a variety of new relationships that are not defined by blood ties and traditional gender roles. "A courageous and optimistic exploration of the new frontiers of the American family".--Jonathan Kirsch, LOS ANGELES TIMES.

Book Synopsis

Judith Stacey has added a new preface to her classic study of how the traditional nuclear family has been supplanted by a variety of new relationships that are not defined by blood ties and traditional gender roles.

From the Back Cover

Riveting . . . provides a final laying-to-rest of sociological shibboleths about the 'normal' nuclear family.--Nancy J. Chodorow

Review Quotes

"Stacey presents a model for the work of future sociologists of the family and those concerned with the relation between work and family."--Arlene Kaplan Daniels, "Women's Review of Books

About the Author

Judith Stacey is Streisand Professor of Contemporary Gender Studies and Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Patriarchy and the Socialist Revolution in China (California, 1983).