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Family Values
Divorce, Working Women, and Reproductive Rights in Twentieth-Century America
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- English
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eBook - ePub
Family Values
Divorce, Working Women, and Reproductive Rights in Twentieth-Century America
About this book
Clashes over the American family and its values have always implicitly or explicitly addressed issues of gender and highlighted the significance of present and future families to American society. This is the insight underpinning Isabel Heinemann's groundbreaking study, which traces, over the course of the twentieth century, debates on the family and its role; the relationship between the individual and society; and individual decision-making rights as well as their denial or curtailment. Unpacking these issues in a vivid and innovative analysis, the book recounts the prehistory of current conflicts over the family and gender while illuminating the relationship between social change, normative shifts, and the counter-movements spawned in response to them.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: family values in a changing society
- 1ââRace suicide or remedy?â The debates on divorce in the Progressive Era, 1890â1920
- 2ââScientific motherhood, reproductive morality and fitter familiesâ: debates on eugenic family concepts and the governmentâs right to intervene in the 1920s and 1930s
- 3ââWorking women, domesticity, and the expertâ: public debates and expert discourses on womenâs employment and motherhood, 1940â1970
- 4ââBlack family pathologiesâ: the limits of the white middle-class family ideal and the debate on the structure and values of the African American family in the 1960s
- 5ââFrom reproductive choice to reproductive rightsâ: abortion, reproduction, and the role of women in family and society in the 1970s and 1980s
- 6ââCulture wars?â Debates on the American family in the 1980s
- Conclusion: Value of the familyâcontinuity and change in the family ideal in the twentieth-century United States
- Abbreviations
- Person Index
- Subject Index