Family Life in the Twentieth Century

2005 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Anne Bliss ◽  
David I. Kertzer ◽  
Marzio Barbagli
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Family Life

“Advanced Marriage Technique”: Sex as a Perfectible Skill in Mid-twentieth-century American Marriage Manuals

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 460-482
Author(s):  
Matthew Lavine
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sexual Intercourse ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Scientific Authority ◽  
Advice Literature ◽  
The Stability

While earlier marital advice literature treated sexual intercourse as a matter of conditioned instinct, marriage manuals in the mid-twentieth century portrayed it as a skill, and one that was rarely cultivated adequately. The didactic, quantified, objectively examined and rule-bound approach to sex promulgated by these manuals parallels other ways in which Americans subjected their personal and intimate lives to the tutelage of experts. Anxieties about the stability of marriage and family life were both heightened and salved by the authoritative tone of scientific authority used in these books.

Childbearing and Childrearing

2019 ◽  
pp. 18-43
Author(s):  
Brianna Theobald
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Government Employees ◽  
Pregnancy And Childbirth ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This chapter lays the groundwork for the book’s use of the Crow Reservation in Montana as an extended case study. After providing an overview of Crow history to the late nineteenth century, the chapter sketches the parameters of a Crow birthing culture that prevailed in the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century. Crow women navigated pregnancy and childbirth within female generational networks; viewed childbirth as a sex-segregated social process; and placed their trust in the midwifery services of older women. The chapter further explores government employees’ attitudes toward and interventions in Indigenous pregnancy, childbirth, and especially family life in these years, as these ostensibly private domains emerged as touchstones in the federal government’s ongoing assimilation efforts.

Race, Care Work, and the Private Law of Inheritance

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (02) ◽  
pp. 511-518
Author(s):  
Dorothy E. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Inheritance Law ◽  
Gender And Race ◽  
The Family

In Someday All This Will Be Yours, Hendrik Hartog (2012) examines how private inheritance law structured the strategies people used at the turn of the twentieth century to induce relatives to care for them as they aged. Reading it as a book about social inequality and the family reveals how wealth, gender, and race not only worked to deny claims of marginalized caregivers but also to hide the way these social hierarchies affect family life. Although race does not figure in Hartog's analysis, highlighting its latent presence illustrates the often unspoken yet fundamental role race plays in legal regulation of families.

Hosea 1—3 in Twentieth-Century Scholarship

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brad E. Kelle
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Eighth Century ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Metaphor Theory ◽  
Marriage Metaphor

Throughout the twentieth century, critical scholarship on the book of Hosea has focused overwhelmingly on the marriage metaphor in Hosea 1—3. Scholars often saw these chapters as establishing the primary interpretive issues for the message of the prophet and the book as a whole, although a lack of consensus concerning even the most basic exegetical issues remains. Newer studies have rightly pushed beyond this isolation of Hosea 1—3. This article surveys the major trends of the modern interpretation of these chapters, with particular attention to the second half of the twentieth century. From the early 1900s to the 1980s, critical works focused primarily on the biographical reconstruction of the prophet and his family life, as well as related historical and form-critical concerns. From the 1930s forward, such study was particularly concerned to read Hosea 1—3 against the background of a purported sexualized Baal cult in eighth-century Israel. Beginning in the 1980s, feminist-critical readings of Hosea 1—3 came to occupy a prominent position. In subsequent years, these concerns have been complemented by an emerging emphasis on metaphor theory, as well as newer kinds of literary, book-oriented, and socio-historical analyses. A follow-up article will treat recent scholarship on Hosea 4—14.

scholarly journals Ewolucja czy rewolucja? Przemiany rodziny na ziemiach polskich w pierwszej połowie XX wieku. Wybrane aspekty

2020 ◽  
Vol 147 (4) ◽  
pp. 823-837
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Sierakowska
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Parental Roles ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual

Evolution or revolution? Transformations of family in the Polish lands in the first half of the twentieth century: Selected aspects The text focuses on select issues related to the transformation of the family in the first half of the twentieth century, such as: changes regarding marital choices and relationships between spouses, changes in the scope of parental roles and the processes of individualization and individual autonomy in the family. It tries to answer the questions about the dynamics of these processes in different social milieus and to indicate factors that accelerated and delayed them. The analysis of the sources and literature concerning family lives does not allow for an unambiguous assessment of the rapidity and range of changes taking place in families. Nevertheless, it exposes the diversity of models existing in family life and shows that it depends on such elements as social environment, gender, idiosyncratic features of the individual, to the same extent as it does on the rate of change.

Happy Families?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordanna Bailkin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Sexual Morality ◽  
Family Separation ◽  
Traditional Norms ◽  
Tremendous Impact

This chapter explores the tremendous impact of refugee camps on family life. These camps served as spaces to experiment with broader definitions of “family,” while still tying certain forms of aid to traditional norms of sexual morality. Camp authorities used politics of family separation and reunification to intervene in the emotional lives of refugees, and refugees deployed British stereotypes about gender and family to their own ends. This chapter looks at how “single” refugees were disadvantaged with regard to housing, and the efforts of Ugandan Asian wives to gain entry to Britain for their “stateless” husbands. We can see both tremendous intrusions into the intimate lives of refugees, and fierce resistance to these interventions. The experience of encampment is part of the larger story of the reconstruction of family life in twentieth-century Britain.

The Puzzling Rise in Childbearing Outside Marriage

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Ermisch
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Young People ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Dramatic Rise

This chapter analyses the rise of incidence in childbearing outside marriage. In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the percentage of births outside marriage rose from 9% in 1975 to 40% in 2000. This chapter shows that the major factor accounting for this change is the dramatic rise of cohabitation among young people. It then analyses why there has been widespread substitution of cohabiting unions for direct marriage in Britain. The chapter concludes with a discussion on the implications for changes in family life.

My Journey

2021 ◽  
pp. 101-136
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Family Life ◽  
School System ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The Political ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
World War ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Second World

This chapter concerns the larger political, social, and religious setting in which Vera Vasilevskaia and Elena Men lived. It provides a more intimate picture of the political and social framework of the early twentieth century and later Stalinist times in which the descriptions and analyses are intensely personal and evocative. It also illustrates the school system in late tsarist Russia and educational practices, their classmates, and their teachers in the 1920s that had a lifelong influence. The writings of Vera and Elena are transparent about their struggles, presenting a first-hand view of family life, society, and religious quest in Russia during the revolutionary years, the 1920s, the Second World War, and the late 1940s. The chapter notes how Vera and Elena wrote for the “desk drawer” with the intention of keeping a personal record of their experiences with catacomb priests and the community.

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