Leonore Davidoff: Thicker Than Water

Cover: 9780199678365 | Thicker Than Water | Siblings and Their Relations, 1780-1920 | Buch

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A pioneering new study of nineteenth-century kinship and family relations, focusing on the British middle class, and highlighting both the similarities and the differences in relations between brothers and sisters in the past and in the present.

Über den Autor

Leonore Davidoff is a Research Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. She has held visiting professorships and fellowships in the US, Australia, Sweden, and several other European countries. Her main area of research is the relationship between the family and economic organization in the period of nascent capitalist development from around 1780 to 1920. She has also pioneered the history of gender relations and in 1987 she became Founding Editor of Gender and History.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part I: Exploring Kin and their Kind

1: Kin and Family: Expert Opinions and Popular Views

2: Finding Siblings

Part II: The Lattice of Kinship: A Historical Case Study

3: The People and the Setting

4: The 'Long Family' and Its Decline

5: A Like Unlike: Siblings in Childhood and Youth

6: A Dance of Intimacy and Separation: Siblings in Adulthood

7: Forgotten Figures: Aunts, Uncles, Nieces, Nephews, and Cousins

Part III: Life's Longest Relationship: Essays on Sibling Themes

8: Sibling Intimacy and the Question of Incest

9: The Rise and Fall of Close Marriage

10: Gender, Age, and Authority: The case of Anne, William Ewart, and Helen Gladstone

11: Sibling Silences: The Freud Family

12: Sibling Loss

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780199678365
ISBN-10:	0199678367
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Davidoff, Leonore
Hersteller:	OUP Oxford
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Leonore Davidoff
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.08.2013
Gewicht:	0,699 kg