Gender, Race, and Kinship: Searching for the Matrifocal Family

Abstract

The social science study of female-headed households has generally treated their frequency in relation to variables such as poverty and ethnicity. Changing gender and kinship relations, especially in households headed by women, have less often been explored. Carol Stack's All Our Kin and Judith Stacey's Brave New Families consider women's and men's positions in African-American and white working class families respectively. Though reflecting political agendas of different historical periods, they offer similar methodological models for the sociological study of gender in kinship.

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