Gender Vertigo : American Families in

Can men mother? Can women be breadwinners? This book investigates single fathers, married baby boom mothers, and heterosexual egalitarian couples and their children to discover how family relationships can flourish without gender as the central organizing mechanism.

Barbara Risman is professor of sociology at North Carolina State University.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Gender as Structure	p. 13
Necessity and the Invention of Mothering	p. 45
Women's Hard Choices: Mothering in the Twentieth Century	p. 72
Playing Fair: Equity for the Educationally Elite	p. 93
Ideology, Experience, Identity: The Complex Worlds of Children in Fair Families	p. 128
Toward a Dizzy but Liberating Future	p. 151
References	p. 163
Index	p. 185
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