Handbook of Marriage and the Family Steinmetz Suzanne K.Paperback
The lucid, straightforward Preface of this Handbook by the two editors and the comprehenSIve perspec- tives offered in the Introduction by one ofthem leave little for a Foreword to add. It is…
Specifikacia Handbook of Marriage and the Family Steinmetz Suzanne K.Paperback
The lucid, straightforward Preface of this Handbook by the two editors and the comprehenSIve perspec- tives offered in the Introduction by one ofthem leave little for a Foreword to add. It is therefore limIted to two relevant but not intrinsically related points vis-a-vis research on marriage and the family in the interval since the fIrst Handbook (Christensen, 1964) appeared, namely: the impact on this research ofthe politicization of the New RIght! and of the Feminist Enlightenment beginning in the mid-sixties, about the time of the fIrst Handbook. In the late 1930s Willard Waller noted: "Fifty years or more ago about 1890, most people had the greatest respect for the institution called the family and wished to learn nothing whatever about it. . . . Everything that concerned the life of men and women and their children was shrouded from the light. Today much of that has been changed.