Social Science Marriage & Family
The (Un)Making of the Modern Family
- Publisher
- Les Presses de l’Université Laval, UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2009
- Category
- Marriage & Family, Gender Studies, Social History, Post-Confederation (1867-)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774815215
- Publish Date
- Jul 2009
- List Price
- $32.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774815208
- Publish Date
- Oct 2008
- List Price
- $95.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774815222
- Publish Date
- May 2009
- List Price
- $30.95
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Description
The family institution is undergoing a radical transformation. The modern meanings of kinship, marriage, parenthood, gender, and sexuality are now being questioned, and debates on same-sex marriages and parenthood or on divorce and blended families are reflective of these challenges.
The (Un)Making of the Modern Family is neither an indictment of the new family nor a rallying cry. It is a classical exercise of family sociology that draws upon a range of disciplines – history, anthropology, psychology, and demography – to provide an interpretive model for understanding contemporary changes in the family. It explores traditional family forms in order to identify changes that gave birth to the ideal type of the modern family, and it discusses how the modern family’s constituent elements (the family as institution, conjugal and parent-child relationships, and gender and sexuality) relate to modernity’s central feature – the concept of the individual. By reconstructing an archetype of the modern family, this book explains why individuals have experienced its deconstruction as a profound identity crisis. It will appeal to anyone concerned with the future of the (post)modern family and society.
Published originally by Les Presses de l’Université Laval as La fin de la famille moderne, this book was awarded the 2000-1 Prix Jean-Charles Falardeau for the best book published in French in Canada in the field of social sciences.
About the authors
Jane Brierley is a Montreal literary translator, writer, editor, and former president of the Literary Translators Association of Canada. Her translations of science fiction stories have appeared in a number of Tesseract's anthologies, and she has translated three of Élisabeth Vonarburg's science fiction novels: The Silent City, The Maërlande Chronicles, and Reluctant Voyagers. In 1990 she won the Governor General's Award for best English translation.
Editorial Reviews
Dagenais’ approach seems fruitful to me … notably because it sheds light on something that is paramount. Some of the changes impacting the family might hurt the basic conditions of our own human development: the solidarity between family and community; the future of parental relationship; the difference between genders and generations; and the goal of educational practices.
Marie-Claude Blais, French philosopher and sociologist
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