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pt. 1. Perspectives on the social history of the family.
The stem family : toward a general theory / Michel Verdon
Patterns for the past / Phillip Greven
The life- course perspective / Glen H. Elder, Jr.
The emergence of the modern American family / Carl N. Degler
Social pathologists and the socialization of reproduction / Christopher Lasch
pt. 2. The domestic environment.
The fall in household size and the rise of the primary individual in the United States / Frances E. Kobrin
The domestic environment in early modern England and America / Carole Shammas
Family structure in seventeenth-century Andover, Massachusetts / Philip J. Greven, Jr.
The pressure to provide : class consumerism, and divorce in urban America, 1880-1920 / Elaine Tyler May
Death and the family / Peter Uhlenberg
pt. 3. The stages of life.
Scarcity and prosperity in postwar childbearing : explorations from a life course perspective / Glen H. Elder, Jr.
Autonomy and affection : parents and children in Chesapeake families / Daniel Blake Smith
The stages of life, 1790-1840 / Joseph F. Kett
Parental power and marriage patterns : an analysis of historical trends in Hingham, Massachusetts / Daniel Scott Smith
Old age in early New England / John Demos
pt. 4. Relations between the sexes.
The Puritans and sex / Edmund S. Morgan
The planter's wife: the experience of white women in seventeenth-century Maryland / Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh
Divorce and the changing status of women in eighteenth-century Massachusetts / Nancy F. Cott
The cult of true womanhood : 1820-1860 / Barbara Welter
Sex and self control : middle-class courtship in America, 1770-1870 / Ellen K. Rothman
The female world of love and ritual : relations between women in nineteenth-century America / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
pt. 5. Ethnic diversity.
Naming, kinship, and estate dispersal : notes on slave family life on a South Carolina plantation, 1786 to 1833 / Cheryll Ann Cody
Persistent myths about the Afro-American family / Herbert G. Gutman
The French-Canadian family economy and standard-of-living in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1870 / Frances h. Early
Challenges to traditional authority in immigrant families / Elizabeth H. Pleck.
The stem family : toward a general theory / Michel Verdon
Patterns for the past / Phillip Greven
The life- course perspective / Glen H. Elder, Jr.
The emergence of the modern American family / Carl N. Degler
Social pathologists and the socialization of reproduction / Christopher Lasch
pt. 2. The domestic environment.
The fall in household size and the rise of the primary individual in the United States / Frances E. Kobrin
The domestic environment in early modern England and America / Carole Shammas
Family structure in seventeenth-century Andover, Massachusetts / Philip J. Greven, Jr.
The pressure to provide : class consumerism, and divorce in urban America, 1880-1920 / Elaine Tyler May
Death and the family / Peter Uhlenberg
pt. 3. The stages of life.
Scarcity and prosperity in postwar childbearing : explorations from a life course perspective / Glen H. Elder, Jr.
Autonomy and affection : parents and children in Chesapeake families / Daniel Blake Smith
The stages of life, 1790-1840 / Joseph F. Kett
Parental power and marriage patterns : an analysis of historical trends in Hingham, Massachusetts / Daniel Scott Smith
Old age in early New England / John Demos
pt. 4. Relations between the sexes.
The Puritans and sex / Edmund S. Morgan
The planter's wife: the experience of white women in seventeenth-century Maryland / Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh
Divorce and the changing status of women in eighteenth-century Massachusetts / Nancy F. Cott
The cult of true womanhood : 1820-1860 / Barbara Welter
Sex and self control : middle-class courtship in America, 1770-1870 / Ellen K. Rothman
The female world of love and ritual : relations between women in nineteenth-century America / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
pt. 5. Ethnic diversity.
Naming, kinship, and estate dispersal : notes on slave family life on a South Carolina plantation, 1786 to 1833 / Cheryll Ann Cody
Persistent myths about the Afro-American family / Herbert G. Gutman
The French-Canadian family economy and standard-of-living in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1870 / Frances h. Early
Challenges to traditional authority in immigrant families / Elizabeth H. Pleck.