NIU Women’s Studies
Library Resource List
Family:


Adams, Margaret. Single Blessedness: Observations on the Single Status in Married Society. Dallas: Offset Paperback Manufactures, 1976.

Blades, Joan and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner. The Motherhood Manifesto: What America’s Moms Want-And What to Do About It. New York, NY: Nation Books, 2006.

Brown, Lyn Mikel and Carol Gilligan. Meeting at the Crossroads: Women’s Psychology and Girls’ Development. New York, NY: Ballantine, 1992.

Coiner, Constance and Diana Hume George, eds. The Family Track: Keeping Your Faculties While You Mentor, Teach, and Serve. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1998.

Diamond, Jean, ed. Families, Politics and Public Policy. New York: Longman, 1983.

Fischer, Lucy Rose. Linked Lives: Adult Daughters and Their Mothers. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.

Ford Foundation. The Common Good: Social Welfare and the American Future. New York: Ford Foundation, 1989.

Gerson, Kathleen. Hard Choices: How Women Decide about Work, Career, and Motherhood. Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 1985.

Gersoni, Diane. Sexism and Youth. New York, NY: R.R. Bowker Company, 1974.

Goody, Jack. The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Greenberg, Selma. Right from the Start: A Guide to Nonsexist Child Rearing. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1978.

Hochschild, Arlie. The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home. New York, NY: Viking Penguin Inc., 1989.

Ingraham, Chrys. White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture. New York, NY: Routledge, 1999.

Kramer, Sydelle, ed. The Balancing Act: A Career and a Baby. Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 1976.

Kramer, Sydelle and Jenny Masur, eds. Jewish Grandmothers. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1976.

Krause, Corrine Azen. Grandmothers, Mothers and Daughters: An Oral History Study Of Ethnicity, Mental Health, and Continuity of Three Generations of Jewish, Italian, and Slavic-American Women. New York, NY: Institute on Pluralism and Group Identity, 1978.

Mintz, Steven and Susan Kellogg. Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life. New York, NY: Free Press, 1988.

MS Foundation For Women and Sondra Forsyth. Girls Seen and Heard: 52 Life Lessons for Our Daughters. New York, NY: Penguin Putnam Inc., 1998.

Oakley, Ann. Woman’s Work: The Housewife, Past and Present. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1974.

O’Brien, Patricia. The Woman Alone. New York, NY: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1973.

Rafkin, Louise, ed. Different Daughters: A Book by Mothers of Lesbians. Pittsburg, PA: Cleis Press, 1987.

Rich, Adrienne. Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (Tenth Anniversary Edition). New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1986.

Rubin, Nancy. The Mother Mirror: How a Generation of Women is Changing Motherhood in America. New York, NY: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1984.

Sander, Joelle. Before Their Time: Four Generations of Teenage Mothers. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.

Scott, Niki. The Balancing Act: A Handbook for Working Mothers. Kansas City, KS: Sheed Andres and McMeel, Inc., 1978.

Shannon, Jacqueline. Why It’s Great to be a Girl: 50 Eye-Opening Things You Can Tell Your Daughter to Increase Her Pride in Being Female. New York, NY: Warner Books, 1994.

Sheehy, Gail. Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life. New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1976.

Smith, Ralph. The Subtle Revolution: Women at Work. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute, 1979.

Solinger, Rickie. Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, & Welfare in the United States. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 2001.

Stack, Carol B. All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1970.

Streib, Gordon, ed. The Changing Family: Adaptation and Diversity. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1973.

Swerdlow, Amy, et al. Families in Flux. New York, NY: Feminist Press, 1989.

Wolf, Beverly Hungry. The Ways of my Grandmothers. New York, NY: Quill, 1982.

Wrigley, Julia, ed. Education and Gender Equality. Washington, D.C.: Falmer, 1992.