Family Values: Divorce, Working Women, and Reproductive Rights in Twentieth-Century America

Isabel Heinemann

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2023

Family Values

Divorce, Working Women, and Reproductive Rights in Twentieth-Century America

Isabel Heinemann
Translated by: Alex Skinner

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111036120

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Clashes over the American family and its values have always implicitly or explicitly addressed issues of gender and highlighted the significance of present and future families to American society. This is the insight underpinning Isabel Heinemann’s groundbreaking study, which traces, over the course of the twentieth century, debates on the family and its role; the relationship between the individual and society; and individual decision-making rights as well as their denial or curtailment. Unpacking these issues in a vivid and innovative analysis, the book recounts the prehistory of current conflicts over the family and gender while illuminating the relationship between social change, normative shifts, and the counter-movements spawned in response to them.

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Isabel Heinemann, University of Bayreuth, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction: family values in a changing society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 “Race suicide or remedy?” The debates on divorce in the Progressive Era, 1890–1920 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
2 “Scientific motherhood, reproductive morality and fitter families”: debates on eugenic family concepts and the government’s right to intervene in the 1920s and 1930s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
3 “Working women, domesticity, and the expert”: public debates and expert discourses on women’s employment and motherhood, 1940–1970 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
4 “Black family pathologies”: the limits of the white middle-class family ideal and the debate on the structure and values of the African American family in the 1960s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
5 “From reproductive choice to reproductive rights”: abortion, reproduction, and the role of women in family and society in the 1970s and 1980s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
6 “Culture wars?” Debates on the American family in the 1980s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Conclusion: Value of the family—continuity and change in the family ideal in the twentieth-century United States Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	388
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	407
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411
List of figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
List of tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	417
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419
Person Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	487
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	491

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Scholars in the field of social history, modern history, and gender studies
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 498
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 25
- Tables: 4
Keywords: United States of America; family; working women; societal change; marriage; 20th century

eBook

Published: October 4, 2023
ISBN: 9783111036120

Hardcover

Published: October 4, 2023
ISBN: 9783111035536