Between sex and power : family in the world, 1900-2000 /
Goran Therborn.
- xii, 379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- International library of sociology .
- International library of sociology. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Sex, Power, and Families of the World -- Patriarchy and 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 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 -- -- 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 coming. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. Pt. II. 4. 5. 6. Pt. III. 7. 8.
The institution of the family changed hugely during the course of the Twentieth Century. In this major new 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 extramarital sexuality; and on fertility and birth control. Therborn's empirical analysis uses a multi-disciplinary approach to show how the major family systems of the world have been formed and developed.