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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829028403321

Autore

Therborn Goran <1941, >

Titolo

Between sex and power : family in the world, 1900-2000 / / Goran Therborn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-49458-0

0-415-30077-0

1-134-49459-9

1-280-02536-0

0-203-64329-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Collana

International library of sociology

Disciplina

306.85/09/04

Soggetti

Genealogy - 20th century

Families

Patriarchy - History - 20th century

Marriage - History - 20th century

Sex - Social aspects

Fertility, Human - Social aspects

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 (p. [323]-364) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Introduction: sex, power and families of the world; Patriarchy: its exits and closures; Modernities and family systems: patriarchy around 1900; A long night's journey into dawn; The patriarchal burden of the twenty-first century; Marriage and mutations of the socio-sexual order; Sex and marriage in 1900; Marital trends of the twentieth century; The return of cohabitation and the sexual revolution; Couples, babies and states; Fertility decline and political natalism; The politics and sociology of birth control

Conclusions: the century gone, the century comingAppendix: a note on primary sources; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

The institution of the family changed hugely during the course of the twentieth century. In this major new work Göran Therborn provides a



global history and sociology of the family as an institution, and of politics within the family.