Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-364) and index.
Contents
Table of contents -- Introduction: Sex, Power, and Families of the World -- Patriarchy and Its Exits and Closures -- Modernities and Family Systems: Patriarchy around 1900 -- A Long Night's Journey into Dawn -- The Patriarchal Burden of the Twenty-first Century -- Marriage and Mutations of the Socio-Sexual Order -- Sex and Marriage in 1900 -- Marital Curvatures of the Twentieth Century -- The Return of Cohabitation and the Sexual Revolution -- Couples, Babies, and States -- Fertility Decline and Political Natalism -- The Politics and the Sociology of Birth Control -- Conclusion. The Century Gone, the Century Coming.
