Subversive Family An Alternative History of Love and Marriage

Name: Subversive Family An Alternative History of Love and Marriage
Price: 5.08 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780029219928

ISBN-10: 0029219922

ISBN-13: 9780029219928

Edition: 1992

Authors: Ferdinand Mount

List price: $24.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

3 new & used from $5.08

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

""The family is a subversive organization. In fact, it is the ultimate and only consistently subversive organization." With these words, Ferdinand Mount begins what has come to be regarded as one of the most influential works of social history in recent times. Published to acclaim in England and throughout Europe, The Subversive Family now makes its first appearance in America. At a time when public discussions of divorce, child support, gender inequality, adoption, care for the aged, and all manner of family issues are taking new and unanticipated turns, Mount provides us with a history of the family that will pique the interest, and often the ire, of all parties in the debate." "Mount…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 11/9/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 300
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface to the American Edition


Introduction


The Myths


Marriage and the Church


The State and the Family


Is the Family an Historical Freak?


The Myth of the Extended Family


Matchmaking and Lovemaking


The Troubadour Myth


The Myth of the Indifferent Mother


Where Did the Historians Go Wrong?


The Family Then and Now


The Family-haters


Privacy and the Working Class


The Dilution of Fraternity


The Recovery of Divorce


Women, Power and Marriage


And Afterwards?


Appendix


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index