Marriage, Domestic Life and Social Change

Abstract

PART ONE: BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY: Social reconstruction and the emergence of companionate marriage, 1945-59 Janet Finch and Penny Summerfield Sex and Marriage in the 1960s and 1970s M. P. M. Richards and B. Jane Elliot Marriage in the 1980s: a new sense of realism Janet Finch and David Morgan PART TWO: DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS Demographic trends in domestic life, 1945-87 B. Jane Elliot PART THREE: PRIVATE TROUBLES, PUBLIC ISSUES Ideologies of marriage and family life David Morgan Constituting the marital world: a qualitative perspective David Clark Making, breaking and remaking marriage Christopher Clulow Interventions in families Janet Walker Pretended family relationships Jeffrey Weeks Afterword: Does the ring make any difference? Couples and the private face of a public relationship in post-war Britain.

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