Families at Work: Expanding the Bounds

Contributors

357 Contributors Ernestine Avila is a graduate student at the University of Southern California and does research on Latina immigrant nannies, the emotional labor associated with their paid work and how motherhood practices and care work are transformed by immigrant women who live and work in the U.S. while their children remain in their countries of origin. Her dissertation, a qualitative study, explores the challenges and issues that Mexican and Central American immigrant transnational mothers and fathers encounter and how they cope. Christopher Carrington is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Human Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University. He is the author of No Place Like Home: Relationships and Family Life among Lesbians and Gay Men (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999). He is also the author of a forthcoming book about the gay dance and circuit party scene entitled: Circuit Boys: Into the World of the Gay Dance and Circuit Party Culture. His research interests include ethnographic methods, family studies, gay/lesbian sexuality and the sociology of deviance and social conformity. Dan Clawson’s current interests focus on the contemporary U.S. labor movement. He teaches sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and is a member of the Coordinating Committee of Scholars, Artists, and Writers for Social Justice, which strives to build connections between academics and the labor movement . He is the co-author of Dollars and Votes: How Business Campaign Contributions Subvert Democracy and the editor of Required Reading: Sociology’s Most Influential Books. Marianne Cooper is a doctoral student in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research on fathers in Silicon Valley grew out of her interest and specialization in sociology of gender, family, and work. Her work was funded by a fellowship from the Cal@Silicon Valley Fellowship which supports graduate students whose work makes contributions to high-tech industry. Francine M. Deutsch, a Professor of Psychology at Mount Holyoke College, is the author of Halving it all: How equally shared parenting works (1999, Harvard University Press), a National Science Foundation sponsored study of the division of domestic labor among dual-earner couples. Her articles on gender and the family have been published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychology of Women Quarterly, Sex Roles, the Journal of Family Issues, and Current Directions in Psychology. Her most recent research examines the gendered life plans of Chinese college seniors in the People’s Republic of China. Naomi Gerstel, a Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, focuses on gender, carework, and family and work policy. Recent articles address 358 Families at Work the effect of women’s employment on care to family and friends, family policy of unions and the Family and Medical Leave Act, the contextual character of men’s caregiving, and the effect of children on the care women and men provide. Marjorie L. DeVault is Professor of Sociology and a member of the Women’s Studies Program at Syracuse University. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University and writes on women’s work, household life, and qualitative and feminist research methodologies. She is the author of Feeding the Family: The Social Organization of Caring as Gendered Work and Liberating Method: Feminism and Social Research. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology , and in the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is author of Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration (University of California Press 1994),and Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence (University of California Press 2001). Rebecca Klatch is Professor of Sociology at University of California-San Diego. She is author of Women of the New Right and of A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s. She has also written articles on social movements , family politics, and the formation of feminist consciousness. Demie Kurz is in the Women’s Studies and Sociology departments at the University of Pennsylvania. Her primary research is in the area of gender, the family, and carework. Her current research, on families with teenage children, incorporates the perspectives of both parents and children and explores how families negotiate children’s progression from dependency to autonomy. Her book on divorce, entitled For Richer, For Poorer: Mothers Confront Divorce (Routledge 1995), analyzed the social and economic impact of divorce on a diverse group of families. On the Steering Committee of the Carework Network (a network of researchers, policy makers, and activists...