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Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Sex, Power, and Families of the World
• Patriarchy and Its Exits and Closures
• Modernities and Family Systems: Patriarchy around l900
• A Long Nightþs Journey into Dawn
• The Patriarchal Burden of the Twenty-first century
• Marriage and Mutations of the Socio-Sexual Order
• Sex and Marriage in l900
• Marital Curvatures of the Twentieth century
• The Return of Cohabitation and the Sexual Revolution
• Couples, Babies, and States
• Fertility Decline and Political Natalism
• The Politics and the Sociology of Birth Control
• Conclusion. The century Gone, the century Coming.

Author/Creator:

Therborn, Göran, 1941-

Contributors:

NetLibrary, Inc.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Between sex and power: family in the world, 1900-2000 [by Therborn, G.]

Related Series:

International library of sociology

Subjects:

Families — History — 20th century

Families — Cross-cultural studies

Patriarchy — History — 20th century

Marriage — History — 20th century

Sex — Social aspects

Fertility, Human — Social aspects

1900-1999

Patriarchy

Marriage

Sex

Fertility, Human

Families

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [318]-364) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2004. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.

Physical Description:

xii, 379 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HQ518 .T47 2004eb

ISBNs:

0203643291 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

1053046236
56551283 [Invalid]