Between sex and power : family in the world, 1900-2000 / Göran Therborn.
- Therborn, Göran, 1941-
- Date:
- 2004
- Books
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Publication/Creation
London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Physical description
xii, 379 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. [318]-364) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Sex, Power, and Families of the World -- Patriarchy and Its Exits and Closures -- Modernities and Family Systems: Patriarchy around l900 -- A Long Nightþs Journey into Dawn -- The Patriarchal Burden of the Twenty-first Century -- Marriage and Mutations of the Socio-Sexual Order -- Sex and Marriage in l900 -- Marital Curvatures of the Twentieth Century -- The Return of Cohabitation and the Sexual Revolution -- Couples, Babies, and States -- Fertility Decline and Political Natalism -- The Politics and the Sociology of Birth Control -- Conclusion. The Century Gone, the Century Coming.
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Location Status History of MedicineUR.U.AA9Open shelves
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- 0415300770
- 0415300789