BOOKS [published and in preparation]


Gary Cross
Wondrous Innocence/Innocents Lost: Ironies of American Families in a Commercial Age. New York: Oxford University Press, in press.
 (Much of the book was written during Cross’s semester as a Visiting Scholar at CWF.)

Book underway, with John Walton, on the 20th century history of family holiday rituals
(Initial material and ideas drawn together when Cross was in residence at the CWF.) 

Paula Fass
Editing a three volume Encyclopedia of the History of Childhood which will be published by Macmillan Reference in the fall 2003.
(The CWF 2001-02 emphasis on the history of families and childhood was helpful in the genesis of this ambitious project.)

Anita Garey
Good Intentions: Social Logics and Universal Entitlements.
(Book manuscript in preparation, initiated during Garey’s senior post-doc year at CWF.)

Weaving Work and Motherhood. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. (1999)
(2000 winner of the William J. Goode Book Award for the "best book-length contribution to family sociology," from the Family Section of the American Sociological Association.)

Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002
(Glenn presented material from this project at CWF and work on the book was enriched by her participation in our workshops.)

Karen Hansen
Not-So-Nuclear Families  (under contract with Rutgers University Press.)
(Book in process; initiated during Hansen’s senior post-doc year at CWF.)

Arlie Russell Hochschild
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, (co-edited with Barbara Ehrenreich). New York: Metropolitan Books,  January 2003.
(This book gathers material, including four articles written by scholars who have been affiliated with the Center, on the mutual spill over of the work-family tensions of middle class dual earner families and those of the care workers employed by them.)

The Commercial Spirit of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work, Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming, January 2003.
(Collects in one volume a number of essays on work-family life that have been published in Europe and the U.S.; some of the essays are new.)

The Time Bind (paperback edition with new preface). New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001.
(German and Danish translations, with a different new preface, to be published in Jan. 2003.

Louise Lamphere
Weaving Together Women’s Lives: Three Generations in a Navajo Family  (to be published by Beacon Press, 2003).
(Lamphere worked on this book, and the one below, during her year as a senior post-doc at CWF).

Providers and Patients Respond to Medicaid Managed Care: Ethnographic Insights from New Mexico (Edited collection in preparation for submission to Russell Sage Foundation, 2003.)

Annette Lareau
Inside Families: The Importance of Social Class in Children’s Lives. University of California Press (in press, 2003).
(Lareau did considerable research and writing on this book before her semester as a Visiting Scholar at CWF; her participation in our community, including a workshop presentation, helped her see the project through to completion.)

Vanessa May
Work and Financial Survival in the Life Stories of Finnish Lone Mothers. Published by Abo Akademi University in Finland, 1999.
(May, a Finnish sociologist, worked on this manuscript during a year as a Visiting Scholar at Berkeley; she actively participated in CWF activities.)

Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen
Unge Jenter i Tre Generasjoner (Young Girls in Three Generations), forthcoming, to be published by Universitetsforlaget, Oslo
(Nielsen, a Norwegian psychologist, wrote much of this book while she was a CWF Visiting Scholar; she also presented some of it at a workshop.)

Rhacel Parrenas
Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001.
(Parrenas worked on this project during a stay at the Center for Working Families.)  

Parennas is now writing a book on children who have been left behind in the Phillipines by their transmigrant working parents  

Ilene Philipson
Married to the Job: Why We Live to Work and What We Can Do About It. NY: Simon and Schuster, 2002.
(Philipson conceptualized and wrote this book while actively participating in the CWF community; in the book and media presentations about it, she lists our Center as her affiliation.)

Barrie Thorne
Growing Up in Oakland: Changing Structures and Experiences of Childhood.
(In preparation; an ethnography of children’s daily lives and the organization of childhoods in a mixed-income, ethnically diverse area of Oakland. Research funded by the CWF and by the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Pathways Through Middle Childhood.)

Nicholas Townsend
The Package Deal: Marriage, Work, and Fatherhood in Men’s Lives. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2002.
(Townsend was well into writing this book when he arrived as a visitor at our Center; he presented some of the material in a workshop and the project benefited in other ways from his time at CWF.)

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