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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>Describes the unique and varied experiences of women in stepfamilies as told by the women themselves<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877225867&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="534_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>Women and Stepfamilies</h1>
<H2>Voices of Anger and Love</H2>
<h3>edited by Nan Bauer Maglin and Nancy Schniedewind</h3>
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<BR> 448 pp
145 tables
</P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"This text richly captures people making use of and growing with the intricacies of bi-nuclear families."</I>
<br>—<b><I>Journal of Marital and Family Therapy</I></b><I></I></BLOCKQUOTE>
<p>This is the first book to describe the unique and varied experiences and perspectives of women in stepfamilies as told by the women themselves. Through letters, journal entries, poetry, fiction, personal narratives, interviews, and analytic essays, this anthology brings a feminist perspective to the experience of millions of women now involved in stepfamilies.
<BR> <h2>Reviews</h2>
<p><I>"</I>Women and Stepfamilies<I> confronts these myths head-on. Through political theory, fiction and poetry, a wide range of contributors look at living arrangements that are considered atypical. Particularly moving is the fact that the book includes a variety of perspectives: that of stepmother, stepgrandmother, stepsister and stepdaughter . [The book] helps, both in a personal sense and in terms of analyzing family norms. As the first book to focus on the unique, varied perspectives of women, told in their own words, it goes a long way toward addressing the myriad issues raised when people come together out of love and try to forge cohesive living units out of disparate, non-biologically related parts. Equally important, the editors deserve kudos for the inclusivity of the volume. It is multinational, multiclass and reflects the perspectives of both lesbian and heterosexual stepmothers and stepdaughters.... I read it with glee, putting it down only to answer a call, or break up a fight between siblings not of my loins."</I>
<br>—<b>Eleanor J. Bader</b>, New Directions for Women
<BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P>
<p>Introduction
<p><b>Part I: Perspectives</b>
<br><I>Stepmothers:</I>
<br>1. Letters from a Custodial Stepmother – Christine Bryson
<br>2. Ten Times Harder: Becoming a Stepmother – Suzanne L. Bunkers
<br>3. My Extended Family – Andrea Starr Alonzo
<br>4. Stepmother – Carol Ascher
<br>5. Benjamin – Deborah Rosenfelt
<br>6. Parenting on the Edge – Sophia Carestia
<br>7. The Barbie Doll Fight – Gale McGovern
<br>8. Second Wife: Eleven Poems – Helane Levine-Keating
<br>9. One Step Away from Mother: A Stepmother�s Story – Alice Neufeld
<br>10. The Envious Heart – Helane Levine-Keating
<br><I>Mothers:</I>
<br>11. Only My Favorite Mommy – Sheila Alson
<br>12 . A Rainbow Family in the Deep South – Yandra Soliz
<br>13. The Step-Wedding – Wilma Wolfenstein
<br>14. Daisy Chain – Morgan David
<br><I>Stepdaughters:</I>
<br>15. Lizzie�s Axe – Helane Levine-Keating
<br>16. Mementos – Kathy Chamberlain
<br>17. Stealing Clothes from My Stepmother – Alison Townsend
<br>18. The Woman and Her Past – Ines Rodriguez
<br>19. "Whose Side Are You on Anyway?" A Stepdaughter Ponders the Unanswerable – reminiscences by O.C., edited by Yvonne Stam
<br>20. The Mother Who Is Not the Mother But Is – Alison Townsend
<br>21. Name and Shelter Made Me Homeless: Notes from an Interview with a Latina Stepdaughter – Elisa Davila
<br>22. When East Meets West: Second Mothers and Abandoned Daughters – Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
<br>23. What Really is a "Normal" Family? – Erin Marie Hettinga
<br><I>Stepgrandmothers:</I>
<br>24. I�m My Own Stepgrandma – Juanita R. Howard
<br>25. From Dutiful Daughter to Stepgrandmother – Judith Hocking Hioos
<p><b>Part II: Stepping Out</b>
<br>26. Choosing Consciousness – Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich
<br>27. Cross-Sex Stepparenting: A Personal Essay – Kathleen Dunn
<br>28. The New Family and the Old Ideology – Judith Grant
<br>29. The Strengths of African-American Stepfamilies – Margaret Wade-Lewis
<br>30. Grown-up Steps: Reflections on Two Generations of Stepmothers and Their Adult Stepdaughters – Hedva Lewittes
<br>31. Working-Class Mothering and the Problem of Weaning – Dympna C. Callaghan
<br>32. Reading Stepfamily Fiction – Nan Bauer Maglin
<p><b>Part III . Transforming—Both Within and Without</b>
<br>33. Lesbian Stepfamilies and the Myth of Biological Motherhood – Connie Miller
<br>34. Less Than a Mother—More than a Friend – Barbara Drucker
<br>35. Step-by-Step Parenting – Dee, Wendy, and Viivi-Ann Shirley
<br>36. My Wife-in-Law and Me: Reflections on a Joint-Custody Stepparenting Relationship – Sarah Turner
<br>37. There for Each Other: A Stepmothers� Support Group – Nancy Schniedewind
<br>38. The Company of Children – Catharine R. Stimpson
</P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<P><b>Nan Bauer Maglin</b> is Associate Professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York.</P>
<P><b>Nancy Schniedewind</b> is Professor of Educational Studies at the State University of New York, New Paltz.</P>
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<BR><A HREF="/tempress/family.html" TARGET="_top">Family Policy</a>
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</p><p>No longer active.<p><i>Women in the Political Economy</i>, edited by Ronnie J. Steinberg, includes books on women and issues of work, family, social movements, politics, feminism, and empowerment. It emphasizes women's roles in society and the social construction of gender and also explores current policy issues like comparable worth, international development, job training, and parental leave.</p>
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