Table of Contents

Introduction, Hilde Lindemann Nelson; Part I Histories; Chapter 1 Families and Feminist Theory: Some Past and Present Issues, Susan Moller Okin; Chapter 2 The Myth of the Traditional Family, Linda Nicholson; Chapter 3 “The Family” and Radical Family Theory, Naomi Zack; Part II The Breakdown of the Family; Chapter 4 Are Families Out of Date?, Mary Midgley, Judith Hughes; Chapter 5 Baby strike!, Laura M. Purdy; Chapter 6 Feminism by Any Other Name, Michele M. Moody-Adams; Chapter 7 Fluid Families: The Role of Children in Custody Arrangements, Elise L.E. Robinson, Hilde Lindemann Nelson, James Lindemann Nelson; Part III Intimate Knowings; Chapter 8 Privacy, Self-Knowledge, and Pluralistic Communes: An Invitation to the Epistemology of the Family, John Hardwig; Chapter 9 Addiction and Knowledge: Epistemic Disease and the Hegemonic Family, Judith Bradford, Crispin Sartwell; Part IV Who’s In, Who’s Out?; Chapter 10 Family’s Outlaws: Rethinking the Connections between Feminism, Lesbianism, and the Family, Cheshire Calhoun; Chapter 11 Who Takes Care of the Maid’s Children? Exploring the Costs of Domestic Service, Romero Mary; Part V Families and Medicine; Chapter 12 Child Abuse and Neglect: Cross-Cultural Considerations, Françoise Baylis, Jocelyn Downie; Chapter 13 Gays, Lesbians, and the Use of Alternate Reproductive Technologies, Sidney Callahan; Part VI Images We Don’t Need; Chapter 14 The Idea of Fatherhood, Sara Ruddick; Chapter 15 Sexuality, the Family, and Nationalism, Bat-Ami Bar On; Chapter 16 The Family Romance: A Fin-de-Siècle Tragedy, Diana Tietjens Meyers;