While the aunt is one of the most iconic and beloved figures in popular culture, the societal role and import of real-life contemporary aunts are difficult to pin down. In some settings, she is the...
The Sexual Revolution, which has been underway since the 1950s, is a rolling revolution--a set of unfinishable ambitions, all affecting marriage and family life. Feminists want to "liberate" women...
Rhetoric, Identity, and Nineteenth-Century Marriage Controversies
by Leslie J. Harris
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781481300513
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: July 2014
Format: Hardcover
State of the Marital Union documents the transformations of public identity occurring in American society through a close examination of the rhetoric used in nineteenth-century marriage controversies....
Private Life, Public Goods, and the Rebirth of Social Individualism
by Lauren K. Hall
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781602588011
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: February 2014
Format: Hardcover
In Family and the Politics of Moderation, Lauren K. Hall argues that the family is a fulcrum upon which societal values balance. Hall describes a set of intermediate institutions that hold the power...
Cultural Practices That Sustain Family and Community Life
by Laura L. Ellingson and Patricia J. Sotirin
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781602581524
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: August 2010
Format: Hardcover
Whether related by biology, marriage, circumstance, or choice, aunts embody a uniquely flexible familial role. The aunt-niece/nephew relationship--though often overlooked--is critical and complex, one...
