This new fourth edition offers a thought-provoking introduction to key issues, questions, findings, and debates in family studies. Combining high-quality readings with contextualizing part introductions, this compelling collection explores the complex dynamics of family life with a focus onhow gendered relationships continue to play a major role in the structure of today's families. With classic and contemporary readings from Canada, the US, and the UK, Family Patterns, Gender Relations offers students a wide variety of perspectives on what it means to be a family in our modernworld.

Product Details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Canada;
• ISBN: 9780199000890
• ISBN: 9780195447477
• Copyright: 2014