Kniga posvyashchena problemam immigrantskoy sem"i v SShA. Na primere odnoy iz naibolee mnogochislennykh immigrantskikh grupp Latinskoy Ameriki v SShA – puertorikantsev analiziruetsya fenomen gendernogo konflikta v sem"e i slozhnosti adaptatsii muzhchin i zhenshchin k novoy etnokul"turnoy srede. Naibol"shee vnimanie udelyaetsya raznosti adaptatsionnykh resursov muzhchin i zhenshchin v usloviyakh novoy sredy obitaniya. Avtor polagaet, chto imenno nesovpadenie adaptatsionnykh modeley povedeniya muzhchin i zhenshchin privodit k potere traditsionnykh tsennostey gendernykh otnosheniy i, kak rezul"tat, k raspadu immigrantskikh semey. Materialy, ispol"zovannye v knige, v znachitel"noy stepeni yavlyayutsya rezul"tatom vklyuchennogo nablyudeniya avtora, provodivshegosya v 2001-2003 gg. v neskol"kikh shtatakh SShA. Issledovanie vypolneno v mezhdistsiplinarnom klyuche – na styke istorii, sotsial"noy antropologii i sotsial"noy psikhologii. Kniga predstavlyaet interes kak dlya spetsialistov, izuchayushchikh gendernye problemy, tak i dlya samogo shirokogo kruga chitateley.