Isabel Heinemann 
Inventing the Modern American Family [PDF ebook] 
Family Values and Social Change in 20th Century United States

Contents
Introduction: Inventing the ‘Modern American Family’:
Family Values and Social Change in 20th Century United States
Isabel Heinemann7
Section I: Building the Nation: The American Family
Nationalist Middle-Class Women, Memory, and Conservative
Family Values, 1890–1945
Simon Wendt31
‘Americanization through Homemaking’: Mexican American
Mothers as a Major Factor in Americanization Programs
Claudia Roesch59
Mothering the Nation, Unmothering the Self: New Women and
Maternal Narratives in the Progressive Era
Barbara Antoniazzi82
Section II: Social Experts and the American Family
‘Healthy’ Men make Good Fathers: Masculine Health
and the Family in 20th Century America
Tracy Penny Light105
Social Experts and Modern Women’s Reproduction: From ‘Working Women’s Neurosis’ to the Abortion Debate, 1950–1980
Isabel Heinemann124
Section III: Failing Parents and Problematic Youth
‘The Enemy Within’: African American Motherhood and the
‘Crack Baby Crisis’
Anne Overbeck155
Looking for Fathers in the Postwar U.S. Foster Care System
Catherine E. Rymph177
‘But recall the kind of parents we have to deal with’: Juvenile
Delinquency, Interdependent Masculinity and the Government of
Families in the Postwar U.S.
Nina Mackert196
Section IV: Fatherhood / Motherhood and the Media
‘You be a man if you can, Stan’: Family Life and Fatherhood in
Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep (1977)
Jürgen Martschukat223
Is Mom to Blame? Anti-Communist Law Enforcement and the
Representation of Motherhood in Early Cold War U.S. Film
Olaf Stieglitz244
Family Man: The Popular Reception of Home Improvement,
1991–1992, and the Debate about Fatherhood
Andre Dechert265
Bibliography289
Contributors326
Index330

Isabel Heinemann ist Juniorprofessorin für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte und Leiterin der Emmy-Noether-Nachwuchsgruppe ‘Familienwerte im gesellschaftlichen Wandel’ an der Universität Münster.