Judith Stacey is Streisand Professor of Contemporary Gender Studies and Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Patriarchy and the Socialist Revolution in China (California, 1983).

• Preface to the 1998 EditionAcknowledgmentsPrologueIntroductions1 The Making and Unmaking of Modern Families2 Land of Dreams and Disasters: Postindustrial Living in the Silicon Valley Book I Pamela's Kin: Feminism, Fundamentalism, and a Postmodern Extended Family3 Pam's Revelation and Mine 4 Sprouting Some Odd Branches: A Divorce-Extended Family 5 Pamela's Children: Spirited Youth in Stressful Times 6 Global Ministries of Love and New Wave Evangelicalism 7 The Gray and Spotted Dogs Book 11 The Lewisons: High-Tech Visions and Battered Dreams8 The Last "Modem" Family in Town9 To Feminism and Partway Back10 If Wishes Were Fishes: Surviving Loss in a Matrifocal FamilyConclusions11 The Postmodern Family, For Better and WorseEpilogue Taking Women at Their WordNotesBibliographyIndex