| Between Sex and Power: Family in the World 1900-2000 Contributor(s): Therborn, Göran (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415300789 ISBN-13: 9780415300780 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $68.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2004 Annotation: 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 extra-marital 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. 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 * Creole America and Southeast Asia. Therborn concludes by assessing what changes the family might see during the next century. This book will be essential reading for anybody with an interest in either the sociology of the history of the family. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships - Social Science | Sociology - Marriage & Family - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 306.850 |
| LCCN: 2003017723 |
| Series: International Library of Sociology (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.32" W x 9.16" (1.31 lbs) 392 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The institution of the family changed hugely during the course of the twentieth century. In this major new work, Göran Therborn provides a global history and sociology of the family as an institution and of politics within the family, 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 population policy. Therborn's empirical analysis uses a multi-disciplinary approach to show how the major family systems of the world have been formed and developed. Therborn concludes by assessing what changes the family might see during the next century. This book will be essential reading for anybody with an interest in either the sociology or the history of the family. |
