Taboos and excesses: lay health moralities in middle class families.

Subabusive violence in child rearing in middle-class American families.

The Middle Class and National Health Reform

With the recent flurry of proposals for universal health insurance, including a new plan submitted on June 5 by Majority Leader George Mitchell on behalf of the Senate Democratic leadership, a struggle that began three-quarters of a century ago in the United States entered another phase. Four times-in the Progressive Era, during the New Deal, under President Truman, and again in the 1970s-refon...

Parental job loss and children's educational attainment in black and white middle-class families.

Objectives. We aim to understand why blacks are significantly less likely than whites to perpetuate their middle-class status across generations. To do so, we focus on the potentially different associations between parental job loss and youth's educational attainment in black and white middle-class families.Methods. We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), following those chi...

The place of birth: childbearing and kinship in Calcutta middle-class families.

Hospital births were introduced to India during the colonial period but became a popular option during the 1960s. Today they have replaced "traditional" home birth among the urban middle classes, and a significant proportion of hospital births are elective Caesarean sections. In this article I examine this mode of birth in the context of specific marital and residential patterns and cross-gener...

New Vegetarianism: Food, Gender and Neo-Liberal Regimes in Bengali Middle-Class Families

Introduction In the 1990s, as the lifestyle of the Indian middle classes underwent dramatic change, an emerging consumerist orientation challenged many of the certainties embedded in everyday practices. Amongst the arenas where these changes were played out, food consumption and the availability of new foods across India’s metropolitan areas were particularly prominent, but have been notably ab...