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

• Autore: Therborn Goran <1941->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.85/09/04
• Soggetto topico: Genealogy - 20th century; Families; Patriarchy - History - 20th century; Marriage - History - 20th century; Sex - Social aspects; Fertility, Human - Social aspects
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Between sex and power
• ISBN: 1-134-49458-0; 0-415-30077-0; 1-134-49459-9; 1-280-02536-0; 0-203-64329-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910829028403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: International library of sociology.