Between Sex and Power: Family in the World 1900-2000

ISBN-13: 9780415300780 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 392 str.

Goran Therborn

Opis

The institution of the family changed hugely during the course of the 20th century. In this work, Goran Therborn provides a global history and sociology, and a comparative political analysis of the family as an institution, focusing on three dimensions of family relations: on the rights and powers of fathers and husbands; on marriage, cohabitation and extra-marital sexuality; and on fertility and birth-control. the major family systems of the world have been formed and developed. His truly global scope covers the family in: Europe and the New World of America and Australia; West Asia/North Africa; South and East Asia; sub-Saharan Africa; and Creole America and Southeast Asia. The book has three parts: patriarchy and its exits - and closures; marriage and mutations of the socio-sexual order; couples, babies, and states; and a concluding chapter on the century gone, the century coming.

Recenzje

‘The scope of this book is breathtaking. The minute detail of this fine book is absorbing … [it] is a vital resource for anyone interested in its themes, and the global range of its scholarship will ensure a wide and grateful readership for many years.’ – INTAMS

'This is a deeply impressive book by a major sociologist, original and mostly persuasive in its historical analysis and remarkable in its survey of the global marital and sexual scene.' - Eric Hobsbawm, London Review of Books

Spis treści

Preface Introduction: Sex, Power, and Families of the World Part 1: Patriarchy and Its Exits - and Closures 1. Modernities and Family Systems: Patriarchy around l900 2. A Long Night´s Journey into Dawn 3. The Patriarchal Burden of the 21st Century Part 2: Marriage and Mutations of the Socio-Sexual Order 4. Sex and Marriage in l900 5. Marital Curvatures of the 20th Century 6. The Return of Cohabitation and the Sexual Revolution Part 3: Couples, Babies, and States 7. Fertility Decline and Political Natalism 8. The Politics and the Sociology of Birth Control List of Tables A Note on Primary Sources References

O autorze

Göran Therborn is Director of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences and University Professor of Sociology at Uppsala University.