World of Their Own Making

Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

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Beskrivning

Our whole society may be obsessed with “family values,” but as John Gillis points out in this entertaining and eye-opening book, most of our images of “home sweet home” are of very recent vintage. A World of Their Own Making questions our idealized notion of “The Family,” a mind-set in which myth and symbol still hold sway. As the families we live with become more fragile, the symbolic families we live by become more powerful. Yet it is only by accepting the notion that our ritual, myths, and images must be open to perpetual revision that we can satisfy our human needs and changing circumstances.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1997-10-15
Mått:152 x 235 x undefined mm
Vikt:463 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:Harvard University Press
ISBN:9780674961883

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

John R. Gillis is Professor of History at Rutgers University and author of For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present.

Recensioner i media

Synthesizes, in thoroughly readable prose, a tremendous amount of recent historical literature on Western family life from the Middle Ages to the present. This is no mean feat, and the fact that it undermines many loudly proclaimed political pieties is a delicious bonus.

Innehållsförteckning

Prologue Acknowledgments Introduction Different Times, Different Places: Meanings of Family and Home Before the Modern Age Myths of Family Past At Home with Families of Strangers Life and Death in a Small Parenthesis Enchanting Families: The Victorian Origins of Modern Family Cultures A World of Their Own Making Making Time(s) for Family No Place Like Home Mythic Figures in the Suburban Landscape The Perfect Couple Mothers Giving Birth to Motherhood Bringing Up Fathers: Strangers in Our Midst Haunting the Dead New Times and New Places: Myths and Rituals for a Global Era Conclusion: Remaking Our Worlds Notes Index