Handbook of Marriage and the Family

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Marvin B. Sussman, Suzanne K. Steinmetz, Gary W. Peterson
Springer Science & Business Media, 29. jun. 2013 - 821 strani
To know where we are going as scholars, educators, and practitioners in the field of marriage and family life, we first need to know where we have been. A perusal of early texts on marriage and family life provides some thought-provoking insights into the accuracy of the saying "what goes around, comes around. " It is interesting to note who has been considered to be in a position to provide information on marriage and family life. Included in the eclectic collection of texts we reviewed were ministers whose focus was on spirituality, doctors who emphasized medical aspects of child and adult health, and public health profes sionals and home economists concerned with fighting disease, who emphasized cleanliness, order, fighting germs, and eliminating rodents and insects. There are also philosophers who drew from ancient texts when discussing family life and a count who assembled a group of German intellectual elites to address various topics. An insightful essay of this type is by Marta Karlweis (1926), in which she notes: There is no other fetish that society holds to so firmly as the conception "woman," with all its usual associations of infantilism and dependence . . . . The child requires protection, is a minor and consequently a serf, but above all it possesses no spiritual existence. Neither doctorates or other distinctions nor the right to vote have as yet been able to dispel this sweet idea of the childishness of woman. which man cherishes. (p.
 

Vsebina

Perspectives on Families as We Approach the TwentyFirst
1
22
2
PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE
11
2
22
Demography and Families
39
CrossCultural and U S Kinship
77
Comparative Perspectives
93
5
99
Judith Treas and Leora Lawton
425
16
437
17
467
Kimberly A Faust and Jerome N McKibben
475
THE FAMILY AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS
501
19
517
Economics and the Family
525
Rosen
553

The Elusive Trend toward Convergence
111
II
177
8
184
Postmodernism and Family Theory
205
10
234
Quantitative Methodology for Studying Families
263
11
276
Measurement in Family Studies
291
CHANGING FAMILY PATTERNS AND ROLES
307
13
316
Socializing Children and Parents in Families
327
14
362
Suzanne K Steinmetz
371
21
561
Families and Work
571
23
615
Phyllis Moen and Kay B Forest
633
CHANGING FAMILY PATTERNS AND ROLES
665
Family Communication
687
26
700
27
708
Human Sexuality
743
28
764
Index
776
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