Between Sex and Power: Family in the World 1900-2000

by Therborn,G÷ran

• ISBN13: 9780415300780
• ISBN10: 0415300789
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-03-25
• Publisher: Routledge

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, focusing on three dimensions of family relations: on the rights and powers of fathers and husbands; on marriage, cohabitation and extra-marital sexuality; and on population policy. Therborn's empirical analysis uses a multi-disciplinary approach to show how the major family systems of the world have been formed and developed. Therborn concludes by assessing what changes the family might see during the next century.This book will be essential reading for anybody with an interest in either the sociology or the history of the family.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Preface	xi
Introduction: sex, power and families of the world	1	(12)
PART I Patriarchy: its exits and closures	13	(118)
1 Modernities and family systems: patriarchy around 1900	17	(56)
Collisions and continuities in Europe	20	(9)
At the frontier: gender governance of European settlement	29	(5)
The duality of Creole society: colonial and Indo- and Afro-American families after the upheavals	34	(3)
Colonial thrusts	37	(19)
Imperial threats	56	(14)
The world of patriarchy around 1900	70	(3)
2 A long night's journey into dawn	73	(34)
Prologue: when the earth moved: three moments of change	73	(6)
Act 1: reform, revolution or neither	79	(13)
Act 2: the constitutional moment	92	(7)
Act 3: '1968' and feminist globalization	99	(8)
3 The patriarchal burden of the twenty-first century	107	(24)
South Asian marriage arrangements	108	(4)
Backlash in West Asia and North Africa	112	(4)
African traditions and their ruination	116	(3)
East Asian changes and recidivism	119	(4)
Southeast Asian hesitations	123	(3)
Euro-American post patriarchy: inequality	126	(3)
Patriarchy into the twenty-first century	129	(2)
PART II Marriage and mutations of the socio-sexual order	131	(96)
Meanings of marriage	131	(96)
4 Sex and marriage in 1900	137	(25)
Fin-de-siècle scenes	137	(2)
The rule of universal marriage	139	(5)
The peculiarities of Western (European) marriage	144	(12)
The Creole Americas and their non-marriage	156	(4)
The global significance of marriage in 1900	160	(2)
5 Marital trends of the twentieth century	162	(30)
The rise of the Western honeymoon	162	(10)
Asian ageing	172	(5)
African specificity through colonialism and national crises	177	(4)
The world of marriage in 2000	181	(6)
The great disruption - and the smaller ones	187	(5)
6 The return of cohabitation and the sexual revolution	192	(37)
Boundaries blurred: marriage and non-marriage	192	(15)
The sexual revolution	207	(16)
From outlaw to married citizen: a note on rights to homosexuality	223	(4)
PART III Couples, babies and states	227	(89)
7 Fertility decline and political natalism	229	(31)
The world's demographic transition, 1750-2050	229	(10)
Family systems and their fertility	239	(12)
Damming a tide: governmental birth promotion	251	(9)
8 The politics and sociology of birth control	260	(35)
Family systems and the second wave of fertility control	260	(5)
Assessing the waves: Europe and the Third World	265	(6)
The political demography of family planning	271	(13)
Moving against oneself?	284	(5)
Summing up: the routes to fertility decline - convergent or divergent?	289	(6)
Conclusions: the century gone, the century coming	295	(21)
The global dynamics of family institutional change	295	(11)
Times coming	306	(10)
Appendix: a note on primary sources	316	(2)
Notes	318	(5)
Bibliography	323	(42)
Index	365