Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; Introduction; Part I. Perspectives; Stepmothers; Mothers; Stepdaughters; Stepgrandmothers; Part II. Stepping Out; 26. "Choosing Consciousness"; 27. "Cross-Sex Stepparenting:A Personal Essay"; 28. "The New Family and the Old Ideology"; 29. "The Strengths of African-American Stepfamilies"; 30. "Grown-up Steps: Reflections on Two Generations of Stepmothers and Their Adult Stepdaughters"; 3I. "Working-Class Mothering and the Problem of Weaning"; 32. "Reading Stepfamily Fiction"; Part III. Transforming-Both Within and Without.