Between Sex and Power: Family in the World 1900-2000
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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.
List of illustrationsPrefaceIntroduction : sex, power and families of the world1Pt. IPatriarchy : its exits and closures131Modernities and family systems : patriarchy around l900172A long night's journey into dawn733The patriarchal burden of the twenty-first century107Pt. IIMarriage and mutations of the socio-sexual order1314Sex and marriage in 19001375Marital trends of the twentieth century1626The return of cohabitation and the sexual revolution192Pt. IIICouples, babies and states2277Fertility decline and political natalism2298The politics and sociology of birth control260Conclusions : the century gone, the century coming295App. : a note on primary sources316Notes318Bibliography323Index365
