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Illuminates changes in the American family and presents some of the methods and approaches used to study families. Linking family patterns with changing social circumstances, this title considers husband-wife and parent-child relationships in light of language usage, gender roles, legal structures, and other contexts.

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"Brings together a body of topically and methodologically diverse analyses of the family that span the Colonial period to the present... Underscores the importance of family history for historians of gender." -- Allison L. Sneider, Journal of Marriage and Family

Family and Society in American History

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    A Paperback / softback by Joseph M Hawes, Elizabeth I Nybakken

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      Publisher: University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: 04/06/2001
      ISBN13: 9780252068737, 978-0252068737
      ISBN10: 0252068734
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      Sociology: family, kinship and relationships

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Illuminates changes in the American family and presents some of the methods and approaches used to study families. Linking family patterns with changing social circumstances, this title considers husband-wife and parent-child relationships in light of language usage, gender roles, legal structures, and other contexts.

      Trade Review
      "Brings together a body of topically and methodologically diverse analyses of the family that span the Colonial period to the present... Underscores the importance of family history for historians of gender." -- Allison L. Sneider, Journal of Marriage and Family

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