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Pathfinder for The Family

 

See Also

Wikipedia

Where do you go after Wikipedia?

Some Print Resources at the WCC Library

  • Family law: a review of selected issues [in Hawaii] by Charlotte Carter (Hawaiian Collection, JK9301 .H3 2002 no.2)
  • Statistical handbook on the American Family edited by Bruce Chadwick and Tim Heaton (Reference Collection, HQ536 .S727 1999) - you can also look for more updated information from the agencies listed
  • Encyclopedia of Marriage and the Family edited by David Levinson (Reference: HQ9 .E52 1995)
  • Marriage, Family, and Relationships : a cross-cultural encyclopedia by Gwen J. Broude (Reference: GN480 .B76 1994)
  • Christianity and the making of the modern family : ruling ideologies, diverse realities by Rosemary Radford Ruether (BT707.7 .R84 2000)
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The Research Topics Carrel and CQ Researcher will have more resources on various issues connected to the family.

Search for more books in the library using Voyager


Digital Books (via eBrary and NetLibrary)

  • none yet
Users must login if they are off campus and for eBrary a plug-in must be installed

Web Sites


Videos

(search for more books in the library using Voyager)

  • I Am Sam (DVD)
  • The Ice Storm (DVD)
  • In America (DVD)
  • Life as a House (DVD)
  • My Big Fat Greek Wedding (DVD)
  • The Road Home (DVD)
  • What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (DVD)

Same-Sex Marriage

  • Gay Marriage: why it is good for gays, good for straights, and good for America by Jonathan Rauch (HQ1034.U5 R38 2004)
  • Why Marriage?: the History Shaping Today’s Debate Over Gay Equality by George Chauncey (HQ76.8.U5 C43 2004)
  • Same-sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell (HQ76.3.E8 B68 1994)
  • Same-sex marriage : pro and con : a reader edited by Andrew Sullivan (HQ76.3.U5 S336 1997)
When searching for "same-sex marriage" make sure to do a phrase search by putting the words in quotations marks.

Divorce

  • Between two worlds : the inner lives of children of divorce by Elizabeth Marquardt (HQ777.5 .M3746 2005)
  • For better or for worse : divorce reconsidered by E. Mavis Hetherington and John Kelly (HQ814 .H47 2002)
  • Dividing the child : social and legal dilemmas of custody by Eleanor E. Maccoby (HQ835 .C2 M33 1992)
  • Deadbeat Dads : a national child support scandal by Marcia Boumil and Joel Friedman (HV741 .B693 1996)

History of the Family

  • The Way We Never Were : American families and the nostalgia trap by Stephanie Coontz (HQ535 .C643 1992)
  • Inside the Victorian home : a portrait of domestic life in Victorian England by Judith Flanders (HQ615 .F58 2004)
  • The social origins of private life : a history of American families 1600-1900 by Stephanie Coontz (HQ535 .C64 1988)
  • A History of Private Life, five volumes, edited by Philippe Ariès (GT2400 .H5713 1987)

 

For more resources, including online journal articles, check out the WCC Library main page.

page last updated: August 5, 2008