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Economics of the Family
Marriage, Children, and Human Capital
Edited by Theodore W. Schultz
University of Chicago Press, 1975

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Educational Leadership and Changing Contexts of Families, Communities, and Schools
Edited by Luvern L. Cunningham and Brad Mitchell
University of Chicago Press, 1990

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Essays on Mexican Kinship
Hugo G. Nutini
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1976
Essays in Mexican Kinship offers new and important data on the social structure of Indian and rural Mestizo communities of Mexico, particularly those of the highlands, and provides models and suggestions for future research.
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Evangelical Identity and Gendered Family Life
Gallagher, Sally K
Rutgers University Press, 2003

Evangelical Identity and Gendered Family Life provides a sociological and historical analysis of gender, family, and work among evangelical Protestants. In this innovative study, Sally Gallagher traces two lines of gender ideals—one of husbands’ authority and leadership, the other of mutuality and partnership in marriage—from the Puritans to the Promise Keepers into the lives of ordinary evangelicals today.  Rather than simply reacting against or accommodating themselves to “secular society,” Gallagher argues that both traditional and egalitarian evangelicals draw on longstanding beliefs about gender, human nature, and the person of God.

The author bases her arguments on an analysis of evangelical family advice literature, data from a large national survey and personal interviews with over 300 evangelicals nationwide. No other work in this area draws on such a range of data and methodological resources. Evangelical Identity and Gendered Family Life establishes a standard for future research by locating the sources, strategies, and meaning of gender within evangelical Protestantism.

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