Qualifying exam reading list section on "Care and Intimacy within Families"

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[edit] Example Reading List on "Care and Emotions within Families"

This is excerpted from a larger Sociology of Families qualifying exam reading list (Sarah Garrett, Sociology).

• Cheale, David. 1996. “'Showing them you love them': Gift giving and the dialectic of intimacy” in Komter, Aafke (ed.), The Gift: An Interdisciplinary Perspective.

• Devault, Marjorie. 1994. Feeding the Family: The Social Organization of Caring as Gendered Work. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

• Derne, Steve. 1994. "Structural Realities, Persistent Dilemmas, and the Construction of Emotional Paradigms: Love in Three Cultures." Social Perspectives on Emotion 2:281-308.

• Finch, Janet. 1989. Family obligations and social change.

• Fineman, Martha. 2000. “Cracking the Foundational Myths: Independence, Autonomy, and Self-Sufficiency,” American University Journal of Gender of Gender, Social Policy, and the Law: 8.

• Hansen, Karen V. 2006. Not-So-Nuclear Families: Class, Gender, and Networks of Care. Rutgers University Press.

• Hochshild, Arlie Russell. 2003 (1983). The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling. Berkeley: University of California Press.

• Hochshild, Arlie Russell. 2003. The Commericialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work. Berkeley: University of California Press.

• Solinger, Rickie. 1999. “Dependency and Choice: The Two Faces of Eve” in Gwendolyn Mink (ed.) Whose Welfare? Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

• Tronto, Joan. 1987. “Beyond Gender Difference to a Theory of Care,” Signs 12: 644-86.

• Waerness, Kari. “The Rationality of Caring.” Economic and Industrial Democracy 5 (1984).

• Zelizer, Viviana. “Chapter 4: Caring Relations” and “Chapter 1: Encounters of Intimacy and Economy” in The Purchase of Intimacy.