Judith Stacey, a leading authority on the changing dynamics of the family, will discuss "The Second American Family Revolution" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, at the University of California, Davis, School of Law. Stacey, a professor of sociology and women's studies at UC Davis, will deliver the 11th annual Brigitte M. Bodenheimer Memorial Lecture on the Family in the Moot Court Room. The talk is free and open to the public. According to Stacey, author of "Brave New Families: Stories of Domestic Upheaval in Late Twentieth Century" (1990), the first American family revolution occurred with the displacement of the preindustrial, patriarchal family economy by the "modern" male breadwinner/female homemaker nuclear family. The change began around the time of the American Revolution and was completed by the beginning of the 20th century. The second family revolution refers to the demise of that "modern" system, and its replacement by what Stacey refers to as the "postmodern family." "The routine occurrence of divorce and of paid employment for mothers of young children are two of the major dynamic changes that have thrown gender and kinship into a fluid, contested arena," Stacey said. Instead of the two-parent, single-wage-earner model, there are increasing numbers of more complex "family" configurations that may include other couples, siblings and parents, and that have yet to achieve legal, social and institutional recognition, Stacey said. Stacey specializes in the research of gender, family and social change in the United States and abroad. "Brave New Families: Stories of Domestic Upheaval in Late Twentieth Century" was a 1991 finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. In 1985, her book "Patriarchy and Socialist Revolution in China" won the American Sociological Association's Jessie Bernard Award. She co-edited "And Jill Came Tumbling After: Sexism in American Education" (1974). Articles by Stacey, a prolific feminist author, have been published in nearly 20 books and anthologies. Many of her publications have been translated into German and Japanese. She received a Rockefeller Foundation "Changing Gender Roles" grant in 1988, and an American Council of Learned Societies/Ford Fellowship in 1986. Stacey has lectured widely in the United States as well as in Germany and Spain, before a variety of academic, social and professional conferences. Stacey has taught at UC Davis since 1979, when she received her doctoral degree in sociology from Brandeis University. The Bodenheimer lecture was established in the memory of Brigitte M. Bodenheimer, a UC Davis professor emeritus of law who died in 1981. Bodenheimer was a pioneer in family law, writing and researching in the areas of child custody, adoption, divorce and community property.