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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784682303321

Titolo

Autonomy dependence in the family [[electronic resource] ] : Turkey and Sweden in critical perspective / / edited by Rita Liljestrom and Elisabeth Ozdalga

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Istanbul, : Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 2003

ISBN

1-134-40190-6

1-138-42552-4

1-280-09969-0

0-203-46112-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LiljestromRita

OzdalgaElisabeth

Disciplina

306.85

306.8509561

Soggetti

Families

Domestic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Contrasting Modernities; Cross-cultural Perspectives on Family Change; Married and Degraded to Legal Minority: The Swedish Married  Woman during the Emancipation Period, 1858-1921; The Strongest Bond on Trial; What the History of Family Counselling has to Say About Family  Relations; Household and Family in Contemporary Turkey:  an Historical Perspective; Urban Migration and Reconstruction of the Kinship Networks.  The Case of Istanbul; Couples, Children and Families in Pictures; The Family and the Welfare State: a Route to De-familialization

Equality--a Contested ConceptWho Rules in the Core of the Family?; Change and Continuity in the Turkish Middle Class Family; Family Work in Working Class Households in Turkey; Epilogue: Seeing Oneself through the Eyes of the Other; Appendix: Fact and Figures about Turkey and Sweden; Index; List of participants

Sommario/riassunto

What are the future prospects of the modern family? For a long time the common image in the West has been to see the nuclear family,



consisting of two economically independent spouses and their children, as the natural outcome of the modernization process. As the hierarchies of patriarchal society vanish, a social order based on equal and autonomous individuals all set for self-realisation has been assumed. However, high rates of divorce, often reported domestic violence, teenagers left on their own at an early age, do not harmonize very well with this idealized image. Critical analysis of fam