Mary Abbott

Family Affairs (eBook, ePUB)

A History of the Family in Twentieth-Century England

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The decades between the close of the Great War and the end of the Thatcher era have changed and challenged family life in England dramatically. The Depression and a Second World War shifted priorities and behaviour, as did the Welfare State, the Pill and Women's Lib later on. What threatened a family's respectability in the 1920s is often commonplace today - abortion, contraception, the single parent family, or gay relationships. "Family Affairs" explores the secret life of English families from 1920 to 1990. Mary Abbott takes the reader into her subjects' homes and hearts and provokes us to reflect on families past and speculate on families future. A product of intense original research of primary and secondary sources, this volume is an important contribution to the history of the family. This is an invaluable source for the student of family history as well as anyone interested in this perennially fascinating subject.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134758692
• Artikelnr.: 47888235

Autorenporträt

Mary Abbott teaches at the Anglia Polytechnic University in Cambridge. Her previous publications include Family Ties: English Families 1540¿1920 (Routledge 1993) and Life Cycles in England 1560¿1720: Cradle to Grave (1996).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Cultural tribes 2 Between the wars, 1920
1939 3 `Not brave, just British
, 1939
1945 4 A better world, 1945
1960 5 Runaway world, 1960
1979 6 A decadent, undisclipined society? 1980
1990 Conclusion: prophesies fulfilled?