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

  • Therborn, Göran, 1941-
Date:
2004
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Publication/Creation

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Physical description

xii, 379 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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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    History of Medicine
    UR.U.AA9
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ISBN

  • 0415300770
  • 0415300789