Marriage, Domestic Life and Social Change

Marriage, Domestic Life and Social Change
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 253
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ISBN-10 : 9781134968145
ISBN-13 : 1134968140
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Marriage, Domestic Life and Social Change by : David Clark

Marriage, Domestic Life and Social Change brings together leading writers on marriage and the family in a tribute to the life and work of Jacqueline Burgoyne, a major figure in family studies.

Marriage, Domestic Life and Social Change

Marriage, Domestic Life and Social Change
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 474
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ISBN-10 : 9781134968138
ISBN-13 : 1134968132
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Marriage, Domestic Life and Social Change by : David Clark

Marriage, Domestic Life and Social Change brings together leading writers on marriage and the family in a tribute to the life and work of Jacqueline Burgoyne, a major figure in family studies.

Social Change and the Family in Taiwan

Social Change and the Family in Taiwan
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 476
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ISBN-10 : 0226798585
ISBN-13 : 9780226798585
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Social Change and the Family in Taiwan by : Arland Thornton

Until the 1940s, social life in Taiwan was generally organized through the family—marriages were arranged by parents, for example, and senior males held authority. In the following years, as Taiwan evolved rapidly from an agrarian to an industrialized society, individual decisions became less dependent on the family and more influenced by outside forces. Social Change and the Family in Taiwan provides an in-depth analysis of the complex changes in family relations in a society undergoing revolutionary social and economic transformation. This interdisciplinary study explores the patterns and causes of change in education, work, income, leisure time, marriage, living arrangements, and interactions among extended kin. Theoretical chapters enunciate a theory of family and social change centered on the life course and modes of social organization. Other chapters look at the shift from arranged marriages toward love matches, as well as changes in dating practices, premarital sex, fertility, and divorce. Contributions to the book are made by Jui-Shan Chang, Ming-Cheng Chang, Deborah S. Freedman, Ronald Freedman, Thomas E. Fricke, Albert Hermalin, Mei-Lin Lee, Paul K. C. Liu, Hui-Sheng Lin, Te-Hsiung Sun, Arland Thornton, Maxine Weinstein, and Li-Shou Yang.

To Have and to Hold

To Have and to Hold
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 309
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ISBN-10 : 9780226886718
ISBN-13 : 0226886719
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis To Have and to Hold by : Jessica Weiss

Drawing on interviews with American couples from the 1950s to the 1980s, Weiss creates a dynamic portrait of family and social change in the postwar era. She then pairs these firsthand accounts with deft analysis of movies, magazines, and advice books from each decade, providing an intimate look at ordinary marriages in a time of sweeping cultural change. 8 halftones.

African Marriage and Social Change

African Marriage and Social Change
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 202
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ISBN-10 : 0714619086
ISBN-13 : 9780714619088
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis African Marriage and Social Change by : Lucy Mair

First Published in 1969. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880

Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9781137292681
ISBN-13 : 1137292687
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880 by : Lesley A. Hall

Sexual attitudes and behaviour have changed radically in Britain between the Victorian era and the twenty-first century. However, Lesley A. Hall reveals how slow and halting the processes of change have been, and how many continuities have persisted under a façade of modernity. Thoroughly revised, updated and expanded, the second edition of this established text: • explores a wide range of relevant topics including marriage, homosexuality, commercial sex, media representations, censorship, sexually transmitted diseases and sex education • features an entirely new last chapter which brings the narrative right up to the present day • provides fresh insights by bringing together further original research and recent scholarship in the area. Lively and authoritative, this is an essential volume for anyone studying the history of sexual culture in Britain during a period of rapid social change.

The Woman Patient

The Woman Patient
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951000985118Q
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Synopsis The Woman Patient by : Carol Nadelson

In Volumes 2 and 3, we have chosen a focus that places in context aspects of mental health and the complex psychosocial factors thataf fect our perceptions of how health and illness are defined and experi enced. Weare aware that some may take exceptions to the topics chosen or to the way in which some authors have developed their ideas and presented their information. While we cannot expect to agree with each other all of the time, we can provide a framework and a perspective from which ideas can take form and evolve. The first section of Volume 2 provides an overview of some of the theoretical issues involved in understanding the psychology of women. These issues include changes in psychoanalytic views, particularly in relation to femininity and feminine development. The particular de velopmental experiences of black women are also clearly delineated. The second section deals with specific points in the life cycle that raise unique issues for women, especially as they pertain to the many roles of women in contemporary society and the impact that these roles have on their careers and on their families. The impact of having a working mother on the early interaction with children, the concerns of midlife, especially marital interactions, and the ambiguities of aging are dis cussed. We intend to provide information and to raise questions that we hope will be part of an ongoing dialogue, as well as a stimulus to more intensive study and understanding.

Seven Lives from Mass Observation

Seven Lives from Mass Observation
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 218
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ISBN-10 : 9780198787136
ISBN-13 : 0198787138
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Seven Lives from Mass Observation by : James Hinton

What was it like to live in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century? In a successor to his acclaimed Nine Wartime Lives: Mass Observation and the Making of the Modern Self, James Hinton uses autobiographical writing contributed to Mass Observation up to 1981 to explore the social and cultural history of late twentieth-century Britain. Prompted by thrice-yearly open-ended questionnaires, Mass Observation's volunteers wrote about their political attitudes, religious beliefs, work, childhoods, education, friendships, marriages, sex lives, mid-life crises, aging - the whole range of human emotion, feeling, attitudes, and experience. At the core of the book are seven 'biographical essays': intimate portraits of individual lives set in the context of the shift towards the more tolerant and permissive society of the 1960s to the rise of Thatcherite neo-liberalism as the structures of Britain's post-war settlement crumbled from the later 1970s. The mass observers featured in the book, four women and three men, are drawn from across the social spectrum - wife of a small businessman, teacher, social worker, RAF wife, mechanic, lorry driver, City banker: all active and forceful characters with strong opinions and lives crowded with struggle and drama. The honesty and frankness with which they wrote about themselves takes us below the surface of public life to the efforts of 'ordinary', but exceptionally articulate and self-reflective, people to make sense of their lives in rapidly changing times.

Family Secrets

Family Secrets
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 389
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ISBN-10 : 9780199985630
ISBN-13 : 0199985634
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Family Secrets by : Deborah Cohen

We live today in a culture of full disclosure, where tell-all memoirs top the best-seller lists, transparency is lauded, and privacy seems imperiled. But how did we get here? Exploring scores of previously sealed records, Family Secrets offers a sweeping account of how shame--and the relationship between secrecy and openness--has changed over the last two centuries in Britain. Deborah Cohen uses detailed sketches of individual families as the basis for comparing different sorts of social stigma. She takes readers inside an Edinburgh town house, where a genteel maiden frets with her brother over their niece's downy upper lip, a darkening shadow that might betray the girl's Eurasian heritage; to a Liverpool railway platform, where a heartbroken mother hands over her eight-year old illegitimate son for adoption; to a town in the Cotswolds, where a queer vicar brings to his bank vault a diary--sewed up in calico, wrapped in parchment--that chronicles his sexual longings. Cohen explores what families in the past chose to keep secret and why. She excavates the tangled history of privacy and secrecy to explain why privacy is now viewed as a hallowed right while secrets are condemned as destructive. In delving into the dynamics of shame and guilt, Family Secrets explores the part that families, so often regarded as the agents of repression, have played in the transformation of social mores from the Victorian era to the present day. Written with compassion and keen insight, this is a bold new argument about the sea-changes that took place behind closed doors.

Lesbian Intimacies and Family Life

Lesbian Intimacies and Family Life
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 482
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ISBN-10 : 9781350358898
ISBN-13 : 1350358894
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Lesbian Intimacies and Family Life by : Rebecca Jennings

Focusing on patterns of intimacy, this book traces the historical roots of parenting practices and familial patterns constructed by lesbians and same-sex attracted women living in Britain and Australia between 1945 and 2000. It foregrounds women's unique lived experiences, as they expressed desire, fell in love, and created families against the backdrop of changing cultural, legal, and medical attitudes to female same-sex desire in the late 20th century. Including almost 100 original oral history interviews conducted by the author, Lesbian Intimacies and Family Life reveals the subjective histories of lesbian intimacy during the period, both highlighting the huge variety in women's experiences, and tracing shifting patterns of relationship and family formation. Combined with analysis of representations of lesbian intimacy in literature, press articles, medical texts, and archival material, the book demonstrates the ways in which changing political and cultural concepts of sexuality impacted on individual and collective attitudes. With a unique transnational perspective, Jennings uncovers how feminist and lesbian networks between Britain and Australia promoted knowledge sharing and helped foster change in the familial practices of each country – such as through the adoption of reproductive technologies and alternate routes into motherhood. Through considering the rise of divorce and challenges to traditional marriage practices in the period, this book highlights how lesbian relationships provided alternative models of interpersonal relations, impacting on broader patterns of sexuality, and helping redefine notions of the family in the modern era.