Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum1988-12-01
- Mått150 x 250 x 15 mm
- Vikt666 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- FörlagTemple University Press,U.S.
- ISBN9780877225867
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- Introduction Part I: Perspectives Stepmothers: 1. Letters from a Custodial Stepmother - Christine Bryson 2. Ten Times Harder: Becoming a Stepmother - Suzanne L. Bunkers 3. My Extended Family - Andrea Starr Alonzo 4. Stepmother - Carol Ascher 5. Benjamin - Deborah Rosenfelt 6. Parenting on the Edge - Sophia Carestia 7. The Barbie Doll Fight - Gale McGovern 8. Second Wife: Eleven Poems - Helane Levine-Keating 9. One Step Away from Mother: A Stepmother's Story - Alice Neufeld 10. The Envious Heart - Helane Levine-Keating Mothers: 11. Only My Favorite Mommy - Sheila Alson 12 . A Rainbow Family in the Deep South - Yandra Soliz 13. The Step-Wedding - Wilma Wolfenstein 14. Daisy Chain - Morgan David Stepdaughters: 15. Lizzie's Axe - Helane Levine-Keating 16. Mementos - Kathy Chamberlain 17. Stealing Clothes from My Stepmother - Alison Townsend 18. The Woman and Her Past - Ines Rodriguez 19. "Whose Side Are You on Anyway?" A Stepdaughter Ponders the Unanswerable - reminiscences by O.C., edited by Yvonne Stam 20. The Mother Who Is Not the Mother But Is - Alison Townsend 21. Name and Shelter Made Me Homeless: Notes from an Interview with a Latina Stepdaughter - Elisa Davila 22. When East Meets West: Second Mothers and Abandoned Daughters - Shirley Geok-Lin Lim 23. What Really is a "Normal" Family? - Erin Marie Hettinga Stepgrandmothers: 24. I'm My Own Stepgrandma - Juanita R. Howard 25. From Dutiful Daughter to Stepgrandmother - Judith Hocking Hioos Part II: Stepping Out 26. Choosing Consciousness - Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich 27. Cross-Sex Stepparenting: A Personal Essay - Kathleen Dunn 28. The New Family and the Old Ideology - Judith Grant 29. The Strengths of African-American Stepfamilies - Margaret Wade-Lewis 30. Grown-up Steps: Reflections on Two Generations of Stepmothers and Their Adult Stepdaughters - Hedva Lewittes 31. Working-Class Mothering and the Problem of Weaning - Dympna C. Callaghan 32. Reading Stepfamily Fiction - Nan Bauer Maglin Part III . Transforming--Both Within and Without 33. Lesbian Stepfamilies and the Myth of Biological Motherhood - Connie Miller 34. Less Than a Mother--More than a Friend - Barbara Drucker 35. Step-by-Step Parenting - Dee, Wendy, and Viivi-Ann Shirley 36. My Wife-in-Law and Me: Reflections on a Joint-Custody Stepparenting Relationship - Sarah Turner 37. There for Each Other: A Stepmothers' Support Group - Nancy Schniedewind 38. The Company of Children - Catharine R. Stimpson
"This text richly captures people making use of and growing with the intricacies of bi-nuclear families." --Journal of Marital and Family Therapy "Women and Stepfamilies confronts these myths head-on. Through political theory, fiction and poetry, a wide range of contributors look at living arrangements that are considered atypical. Particularly moving is the fact that the book includes a variety of perspectives: that of stepmother, stepgrandmother, stepsister and stepdaughter . [The book] helps, both in a personal sense and in terms of analyzing family norms. As the first book to focus on the unique, varied perspectives of women, told in their own words, it goes a long way toward addressing the myriad issues raised when people come together out of love and try to forge cohesive living units out of disparate, non-biologically related parts. Equally important, the editors deserve kudos for the inclusivity of the volume. It is multinational, multiclass and reflects the perspectives of both lesbian and heterosexual stepmothers and stepdaughters... I read it with glee, putting it down only to answer a call, or break up a fight between siblings not of my loins." --Eleanor J. Bader, New Directions for Women