ABSTRACT
Susan Moller Okin examines the history of feminism in England and the US for its contributions to the policy debates over practices that have their greatest impact on families. Cheshire Calhoun reviews lesbian-feminist analyses of lesbian's relation to the family, marriage, and mothering, showing how lesbians difference from heterosexual women is often not visible even to lesbian feminists themselves: the analyses mistakenly center on familial harms to heterosexual women, not lesbians. Mary Romero explores the idea that domestic workers are just like one of the family, arguing that this construction not only papers over the physically hard work of domestic service, its low status, and its low pay, but also masks the impact this work has on the domestic workers own family. Feminism and Families owes its existence to Maureen MacGrogan, who suggested the project and has championed it enthusiastically at every stage.
