Marilyn, I have a chapter on the family in my book Women and Children in 
Health Car: An Unequal Majority.
Take care,
mary mahowald 

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>Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:46:56 -0400
>From: "Dr. Christine Pierce" <[log in to unmask]>  
>Subject: Re: Help please  
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>Susan Moller Okin, Justice, Gender, and the Family, 1989.
>Cheshire Calhoun, Feminism, the Family, and the Politics of the Closet,
>Oxford, 2000.
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>Chris
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>> For a student, I'd like help with this:  What is the basic reading list of
>> feminist work on the family?  Analysis of it, recommendations for changes
>> in
>> it, revisions/reconceptualizations of it.  A short list: what have we
>> thought about the family, what do we think about it now.
>>
>> Please respond off=list.
>>
>>
>> Many thanks...this just isn't my thing, but I want to help.
>>
>>
>> Marilyn    [log in to unmask]
>>
>> Thanks.
>>