Dear Colleagues,
Some of you might be interested in this, just appeared book:
G. Therborn, Between Sex and Power. Family in the World 1900-2000 (Routledge,
£22.99 paperback)
Contents:
Introduction. Sex, Power, and Families in the World
Part I. Patriarchy/ Its Exits and Closures
Ch.1. Modernities and Family Systems: Patriarchy around 1900
Ch.2. A Long Night4s Journey into Dawn
Ch.3. The Patriarchal Burden of the 21st Century
Part II. Marriage and Mutations of the Socio-Sexual Order
Ch.4. Sex and Marriage in 1900
Ch.5.Marriage Trends in the 20th Century
Ch.6. The Return of Cohabitation and the Sexual Revolution
Part III. Couples, Babies, and States
Ch.7. Fertility Decline and Political Natalism
Ch.8. The Politics and the Sociology of Birth Control
Conclusion. The Century Gone, the Century Coming.
From some pre-reviews:
"Forty years after William Goode's World Revolution and Family Patterns we
finally have a worthy successor to that foundational work.... For the first
time we have a truly global history of families." John Gillis, Rutgers
University
"I am amazed that one person could have assembled, marshalled and
organized so much information on so large a topic... Our debt is as great as
GT' s task .." Juliet Mitchell, Jesus College, Cambridge
"A great book ... beautifully written .." Mattei Dogan, CNRS Paris and UC
Los Angeles.
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