Between sex and power : family in the world, 1900-2000 / Goran Therborn.
Material type: TextOriginal language: English Publication details: London ;;New York : Routledge, 2004Description: xii, 379 p. : ill. 24 cmISBN:- 0415300770 (hardcover : alk. paper);0415300789 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 306.85/09/04 THB 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-364) and index.
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
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