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Family and Society in American History
Hawes
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Description for Family and Society in American History
Paperback. Illuminates changes in the American family and presents some of the methods and approaches used to study families. Linking family patterns with changing social circumstances, this title considers husband-wife and parent-child relationships in light of language usage, gender roles, legal structures, and other contexts. Editor(s): Hawes, Joseph M.; Nybakken, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 585. Weight in Grams: 472.
The internal dynamics of families have altered dramatically as the family has gradually shifted from a unit of economic production to a collection of individuals in pursuit of different goals. Taking examples from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, this eclectic reader illuminates changes in the American family and presents some of the methods and approaches used to study families.
Linking family patterns with changing social circumstances, Family and Society in American History considers husband-wife and parent-child relationships in light of language usage, gender roles, legal structures, and other contexts. For example, new legal attitudes toward divorce ... Read more
The internal dynamics of families have altered dramatically as the family has gradually shifted from a unit of economic production to a collection of individuals in pursuit of different goals. Taking examples from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, this eclectic reader illuminates changes in the American family and presents some of the methods and approaches used to study families.
Linking family patterns with changing social circumstances, Family and Society in American History considers husband-wife and parent-child relationships in light of language usage, gender roles, legal structures, and other contexts. For example, new legal attitudes toward divorce ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252068737
SKU
V9780252068737
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Reviews for Family and Society in American History
"Brings together a body of topically and methodologically diverse analyses of the family that span the Colonial period to the present... Underscores the importance of family history for historians of gender."
Allison L. Sneider, Journal of Marriage and Family
Allison L. Sneider, Journal of Marriage and Family