Inside the Castle

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna L. Grossman ◽  
Lawrence M. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social History ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sexual Revolution ◽  
Gay Marriage ◽  
Sex Behavior ◽  
The Family ◽  
Modern Family

This book is a comprehensive social history of twentieth-century family law in the United States. The book shows how vast, oceanic changes in society have reshaped and reconstituted the American family. Women and children have gained rights and powers, and novel forms of family life have emerged. The family has more or less dissolved into a collection of independent individuals with their own wants, desires, and goals. Modern family law, as always, reflects the brute social and cultural facts of family life. The story of family law in the twentieth century is complex. This was the century that said goodbye to common-law marriage and breach-of-promise lawsuits. This was the century, too, of the sexual revolution and women's liberation, of gay rights and cohabitation. Marriage lost its powerful monopoly over legitimate sexual behavior. Couples who lived together without marriage now had certain rights. Gay marriage became legal in a handful of jurisdictions. By the end of the century, no state still prohibited same-sex behavior. Children in many states could legally have two mothers or two fathers. No-fault divorce became cheap and easy. And illegitimacy lost most of its social and legal stigma. These changes were not smooth or linear—all met with resistance and provoked a certain amount of backlash. Families took many forms, some of them new and different, and though buffeted by the winds of change, the family persisted as a central institution in society. This book tells the story of that institution, exploring the ways in which law tried to penetrate and control this most mysterious realm of personal life.

The Fissioning of the Modern Family in Utopia- The Real- World Consequences of Political Illusions

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-112
Author(s):  
Bryce Christensen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Real World ◽  
Family Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Family ◽  
Modern Family

Since the mid-20th century, the United States-, like many Europeancountries, -has witnessed dramatic changes in family life, resulting inremarkably low rates for marriage and fertility, remarkably high rates fordivorce, cohabitation, and out-of-wedlock births. To understand these changes the article presents, on the example of literature, ideologies, philosophical trends, and intellectual opinions, which in a particularly destructive way influenced the contemporary condition of the family.

Family Law in the Twentieth Century

2019 ◽  
pp. 769-778
Author(s):  
Lawrence M. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Sexual Revolution ◽  
Deep Impact ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Impact On Family ◽  
The City ◽  
First World

This chapter discusses changes in family law in the twentieth century. Family life changed in many ways in the twentieth century. More and more women entered the workforce. Women won the vote just after the First World War. Women became lawyers and judges. This was also the century of the birth control pill, and the century of the so-called sexual revolution. People lived longer, and had more money. Millions moved from the city to the suburbs. Radio and then television and then the internet invaded the home. All the events, crises, and developments of the twentieth century had a deep impact on family life and family law. None of the changes in family law were quite so dramatic as the changes in the law of divorce.

Secularism, Family Law, and Gender Inequality

2019 ◽  
pp. 145-166
Author(s):  
Saba Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Family Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Gay Marriage ◽  
Political Order ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Modern Family ◽  
Key Sites ◽  
And Gender

Interfaith romance or marriage, abducted women, and religious conversion are key sites of violence between Muslims and Christians in Egypt stemming from the privatization of religion and family in Egypt under modern secular governance. Even though religion-based family law is often regarded as a continuation from the premodern past, it is in fact, a modern invention that belongs to a radically distinct political order-one that has little in common with the premodern arrangement from which it supposedly emanated. A global genealogy of modern family law shows how its designation exacerbated premodern hierarchies and gender inequalities. The conjoining of religion, sexuality and family in the private sphere-in Egypt or in the United States-tied up their regulative fates in such a way that struggles over religion often unfold over the terrain of gender and sexuality. Whereas this entwinement is apparent in a variety of global struggles (over gay marriage, abortion, contraception, and HIV/AIDS, for example), in Egypt it is instantiated in the institution of religion-based family law.

The Revival of Quantification: Reflections on Old New Histories

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Steven Ruggles
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social History ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Second Wave

AbstractQuantitative historical analysis in the United States surged in three distinct waves. The first quantitative wave occurred as part of the “New History” that blossomed in the early twentieth century and disappeared in the 1940s and 1950s with the rise of consensus history. The second wave thrived from the 1960s to the 1980s during the ascendance of the New Economic History, the New Political History, and the New Social History, and died out during the “cultural turn” of the late twentieth century. The third wave of historical quantification—which I call the revival of quantification—emerged in the second decade of the twenty-first century and is still underway. I describe characteristics of each wave and discuss the historiographical context of the ebb and flow of quantification in history.

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.

Domestic Homicide in early modern England

1981 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Sharpe
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Social History ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family

One of the most striking features of recent writing on early modern social history has been the emergence of the family as a subject of central concern. As befits an historical area being subjected to new scrutiny, much of this concern has expressed itself in the form of specialized, and often narrowly-focused articles or essays.1 To these have been added a number of more general works intended to examine the broader developments in and implications of family life in the past.2 Several themes within family history have already received considerable attention: the structure of the family, for example, a topic already rendered familiar by earlier work on historical demography; the concomitant topic of sexual practices and attitudes; and the economic role of the family, especially in its capacity as a unit of production. These are, of course, important matters, and the research carried out on them has revealed much of interest and consequence to the social historian; this should not, however, obscure the existence of a number of other significant dimensions of family life in the past which await thorough investigation.

Adultery in early Anglo-Saxon society: Æthelberht 31 in comparison with continental Germanic law

1991 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 19-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore John Rivers
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Marriage And Family

As in other societies, adultery was a punishable offence among the Germanic peoples. Although it is a topic which has commanded considerable attention, it has been given attention not so much because it deals with family law and its significance to social history, as because it concerns the treatment of women. But closely related to the question of women, of course, is that of how men view each other. Even as early as Tacitus, evidence exists that Germanic women were treated with respect, and were subject to the protection or mundium of male relatives. Although exaggerated, the account in the Germania gives us some understanding of the role of Germanic women in respect of betrothal, marriage and family life. But it also leaves us with questions to which we most likely will never find answers.

scholarly journals FAMILY LIFE IN CENTRAL ASIA: PROBLEMS OF FATHERS AND CHILDREN

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2(22)) ◽  
pp. 20-29
Author(s):  
Abdirashid Mamasidikovich Mirzakhmedov ◽  
Khurshid Abdirashidovich Mirzakhmedov ◽  
Nasiba Alizhanovna Abdukholikova
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Intergenerational Relationships ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Modern Family ◽  
The Impact

The article presents the results of an anthropological analysis of the social life of a modern family. It is immersed in deep socio-economic and demographic problems, which are complicated by the impact of globalization and information technology. Analyzing the transformational processes of family relations, the author comes to the conclusion that in the modern family there is “alienation” of generations, the gap between parents and children, which affects the traditional ethno-confessional foundations of the family. We are talking about the foundations of the national mentality of the peoples of the region about intergenerational relationships between children and their parents, the transformation from a macro-family to a nuclear one.

scholarly journals The dependence of the help of grandparents on the distance of household: on the example Russia, the United States, and Brazil

2021 ◽  
pp. 10-33
Author(s):  
Olga Vladimirovna Semenova ◽  
Mariana L'vovna Butovskaya
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
The United States ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Modern Family ◽  
Feminization Of Migration

The key goals of this research consists in assessment and comparative analysis of the help of family in large postindustrial societies. For this purpose, the author carries out a cross-cultural comparative study of the frequency of family contacts in the three countries: Russia, the United States, and Brazil. Based on the 2019 online survey, the author collected quantitative data on the involvement of grandparents into upbringing process of their grandchildren in Russia (N=620), USA (N=308) and Brazil (N=603). In addition to the basic biosocial demographic parameters, the survey included two target questions on the frequency of communication between grandparents and grandchildren. Intensive migration processes and the resulting distance of households between the two generations in the indicated countries substantially reduces the traditional help of grandparents in upbringing the younger generation. The acquired data demonstrate the significant differences that take place in these three countries, and their correlation with the peculiarities of the family lifestyle in other countries. For example, the help of grandparents in Brazil is much lower than in Russia. Comprehensive analysis is also conducted on the factors that reduce the involvement of grandparents in upbringing of their grandchildren in Brazil. The decrease in the frequency of family contacts may be associated with the intensive urbanization processes unfolding in Brazil over the few recent decades. At the same time, the acquired data may reflect the in-depth processes of feminization of migration from less developed regions of the world to more economically prosperous countries. The analysis of the observed consequences of accelerated urbanization in Brazil is of applied importance for understanding the future prospects for the development of modern family.

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.

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