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Genre/Form: | Cross-cultural studies History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Göran Therborn |
ISBN: | 0415300789 9780415300780 0415300770 9780415300773 |
OCLC Number: | 185991391 |
Description: | 379 s. |
Contents: | Preface Introduction: Sex, Power, and Families of the World Part 1: Patriarchy and Its Exits - and Closures 1. Modernities and Family Systems: Patriarchy around l900 2. A Long Nights Journey into Dawn 3. The Patriarchal Burden of the 21st Century Part 2: Marriage and Mutations of the Socio-Sexual Order 4. Sex and Marriage in l900 5. Marital Curvatures of the 20th Century 6. The Return of Cohabitation and the Sexual Revolution Part 3: Couples, Babies, and States 7. Fertility Decline and Political Natalism 8. The Politics and the Sociology of Birth Control List of Tables A Note on Primary Sources References |
Series Title: | International library of sociology. |
Responsibility: | Göran Therborn. |
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"...a great work of historical intellect and imagination. It is the fruit of a rare combination of gifts. Trained as a sociologist, Therborn is a highly conceptual thinker, allying the formal rigor of his discipline at its best with a command of a vast range of empirical data. The result is a powerful theoretical structure, supported by a fascinating body of evidence. In it, you can find the largest changes in human relations of modern times." - The Nation'The richness of the data and the text provide a fascinating account of how much, and in some cases how little, family systems have changed over the century, and the pace of the book certainly underlines the pace of these changes. It deserves to become a classic text for students and researchers of families past, present and future.' - Social Policy, Volume 36/2 - 2007 Read more...


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- Families -- History -- 20th century.
- Families -- Cross-cultural studies.
- Patriarchy -- History -- 20th century.
- Marriage -- History -- 20th century.
- Sex -- Social aspects.
- Fertility, Human -- Social aspects.
- Family -- History -- 20th century.
- Family -- Cross-cultural studies.
- Families.
- Marriage.
- Patriarchy.
- Familjen -- historia -- 1900-talet.
- Äktenskap -- historia -- 1900-talet.
- Patriarkat -- historia -- 1900-talet.
- Sexualitet -- sociala aspekter.
- Fruktsamhet -- sociala aspekter.