Introduction: Sex, Power, and Families of the World -- Patriarchy and Its Exits and Closures -- Modernities and Family Systems: Patriarchy around 1900 -- 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
Summary
The institution of the family changed hugely during the course of the twentieth century. In this major new work Göran Therborn provides a global history and sociology of the family as an institution, and of politics within the family
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-364) and index
