Retreat of the Male
Eric Hobsbawm: Revolution in the Family, 4 August 2005
Between Sex and Power: Family in the World 1900-2000
by Göran Therborn.
Routledge, 379 pp., £24.99, February 2004,0 415 30078 9 Show More
by Göran Therborn.
Routledge, 379 pp., £24.99, February 2004,
“... the relations between men, women and their offspring is both unhistorical and deeply provincial. Göran Therborn’s comparative survey of the world’s family systems and the ways in which they have changed (or failed to change) in the course of the past century, the result of eight years of intensive thought and research, is a necessary corrective in ... ”