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Intersexuality in Families: Beyond Pink and Blue - Audio Recording

In 1 of 1000 births, an infant presents with ambiguous gender physically or chromosomally. What do professionals and families need to know about thiscondition?

Leader: Sharon Preves, Ph.D., Chair and Associate Professor of Sociology, Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Presider: Stephen Marks

from Family Focus on Immigration / Migration

Migration, separation and family survival

by Leah Schmalzbauer, Ph.D., Montana State University

Whereas poor women used to migrate primarily to reunite with family, they are increasingly migrating in search of wages to support their children. This trend is rooted in an increased supply of poor women in the South who cannot secure living wages. But more importantly it is fueled by the feminization of the low-wage care industry.

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Unequal Childhoods: inequalities in the rhythms of daily life

by Annette Lareau, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

The intersection of race and class in American life is an important but often vexing subject for sociologists. The power of social class is often obscured by the visibility of race. I wrote Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (University of California Press, 2003) in part because I wanted to make class real by showing how it works in everyday life.

Ralph LaRossa

Professor, Georgia State University

Ph.D., University of New Hampshire, 1975

Specialty Areas:

History of Fatherhood/Motherhood/Childhood
War
Culture and Cognition
Theory
Qualitative and Historical Methods

Ralph LaRossa is Professor of Sociology at Georgia State University and the author of Conflict and Power in Marriage: Expecting the First Child; Transition to Parenthood: How Infants Change Families (with Maureen Mulligan LaRossa); Becoming a Parent; The Modernization of Fatherhood: A Social and Political History; and Of War and Men: World War II in the Lives of Fathers and Their Families. He is also the editor of Family Case Studies: A Sociological Perspective, and a co-editor of the Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methods: A Contextual Approach (with Pauline Boss, William Doherty, Walter Schumm, and Suzanne Steinmetz). Dr. LaRossa has received grants from the National Science Foundation (principal investigator) and National Institutes of Health (co-investigator) in support of research on the social realities of fatherhood during the Machine Age (1918-1941) and on the experience of becoming a father in contemporary society.

Tammy Henderson

Associate Professor, Oklahoma State University

Ph.D., Oregon State University, 1999

Specialty Areas:

Family Policy, Law, and Diversity
Foster Care and Kinship Care Concerns
Diversity and Disaster Research Related to Older Adults
Grandparent Rights and Responsibilities
Instructional Approaches to Teaching Family Law and Policy

Dr. Tammy L. Henderson, Associate Professor in Human Development and Family Sciences at Oklahoma State University, conducts research in the area of family policy, law, and diversity. She completed her doctoral studies in Human Development and Family Sciences at Oregon State University and earned her other degrees from Louisiana State University. Previously, she was a faculty member at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA. As a family policy and law scholar, Henderson has published more than 32 articles and book chapters focused on grandparent rights and responsibilities, foster care, mentoring Black women, and diversity and policies. She also is conducting research on the impact of Hurricane Katrina on older adults, a critical analysis of mass media reports regarding Hurricane Katrina, and Alaska Native grandparents.