| A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values Revised Edition Contributor(s): Gillis, John R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674961889 ISBN-13: 9780674961883 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $36.63 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1997 Annotation: Our whole society may be obsessed with "family values," but as John Gillis points out in this entertaining and eye-opening book, most of our images of "home sweet home" are of very recent vintage. "A World of Their Own Making" examines our idealized notion of "The Family," a mind-set in which myth and symbol still hold sway. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 306.85 |
| Lexile Measure: 1600 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6" W x 9.22" (1.04 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Our whole society may be obsessed with "family values," but as John Gillis points out in this entertaining and eye-opening book, most of our images of "home sweet home" are of very recent vintage. A World of Their Own Making questions our idealized notion of "The Family," a mind-set in which myth and symbol still hold sway. As the families we live with become more fragile, the symbolic families we live by become more powerful. Yet it is only by accepting the notion that our ritual, myths, and images must be open to perpetual revision that we can satisfy our human needs and changing circumstances. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gillis, John R.: - John R. Gillis is Professor of History at Rutgers University and author of For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present. |