TY  - BOOK
AU  - Therborn,Göran
TI  - Between sex and power: family in the world, 1900-2000 
T2  - International library of sociology
SN  - 0415300770
AV  - HQ518 .T47 2004
U1  - 306.850904 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Families
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Patriarchy
KW  - Marriage
KW  - Sex
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Fertility, Human
N1  - 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 --; Pt. I; Patriarchy : its exits and closures --; 1; Modernities and family systems : patriarchy around 1900 --; 2; A long night's journey into dawn --; 3; The patriarchal burden of the twenty-first century --; Pt. II; Marriage and mutations of the socio-sexual order --; 4; Sex and marriage in 1900 --; 5; Marital trends of the twentieth century --; 6; The return of cohabitation and the sexual revolution --; Pt. III; Couples, babies and states --; 7; Fertility decline and political natalism --; 8; The politics and sociology of birth control --; Conclusions : the century gone, the century coming
N2  - 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
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