Diversity in Families

Download or read book Diversity in Families written by Maxine Baca Zinn and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning text treats family diversity as the norm, while highlighting how race, class, gender, and sexuality produce varieties of familial relationships. Diversity in Familieslooks at families not as “building blocks of societies†but rather, as products of social forces within society. The authors undertake a critical examination of society, asking questions such as, “How do families really work?†and “Who benefits under the existing arrangements, and who does not?†Their goal is to demystify and demythologize the family by exposing existing myths, stereotypes, and dogmas.