Introductions: The making and unmaking of modern families -- Land of dreams and disasters : postindustrial living in the Silicon Valley -- BOOK 1. Pamela's kin. Feminims, fundamentalism, and a postmodern extened family: Pam's revelation and mine -- Sprouting some odd branches : a divorce-extended family -- Pamela's children : spirited youth in stressful times -- Global ministries of love and new wave evangelicalism -- The gray and spotted dogs -- BOOK 2. The Lewison's/ High-tech visions and battered dreams: The last 'modern' family in town -- To feminism and partway back -- If wishes were fishes : surviving loss in a matrifocal family -- Conclusions: The postmodern family, for better and worse -- Epilogue. Taking women at their word
