"Brave New Families" by Judith Stacey

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"In Brave New Families Judith Stacey describes the postmodern family not as a single model but as "diverse, fluid, and unresolved" versions of association in an era when there is no longer "a single culturally dominant family pattern to which the majority of Americans conform and most of the rest aspire" (Stacey, 1998, p. 17). Stacey carefully explains that the "modern" family--a single-earner, male-headed form of family--that was the goal of blue-collar and middle-class Americans was a brief interlude in history. It was realized in large part by middle-class families but remained more of a dream for many blue-collar workers for whom home ownership, stay-at-home mothers, and other aspects of this mode of living either signified important steps up in class or the promise of such advancement for their children. At the same time, however, there were many in the..."

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