Gender, Family and Society

ISBN-13: 9780333524305 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 288 str.

Faith Robertson Elliot

Opis

Contemporary struggles over the ordering of sexual and parental relationships take place in the context of mass unemployment, ethnic antagonism, population ageing, a growing awareness of the pervasiveness of violence and sexual abuse in intimate relationships and the eruption of AIDS as a major health crisis. Gender, Family and Society seeks to provide a sociological understanding of the way in which these key aspects of contemporary social life shape, and are shaped by, gender and family structures.

Spis treści

List of Tables and Figures.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Ethnic Differentiation and Family Life.- Economic Restructuring and Unemployment: a Crisis for Masculinity?.- Population Ageing and the 'Problem' of Care Violence and Sexual Abuse in Family Life.- AIDS: Battleground of Competing Moralities Epilogue.- Bibliography.- Author Index.- Subject Index.