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Family in society : essential primary sources / K. Lee Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, and Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Social issues primary sources collection.
- Social issues primary sources collection Family in society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--History--Sources.
- Families.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xlii, 479 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit, Mich. : Gale, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Provides primary source documents focused family in society in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context. International in scope.
- Contents:
- Advisors and Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- About the set
- Introduction
- About the entry
- Using primary sources
- Chronology
- Concepts of family
- Marriage, partnership, and divorce
- Parenting and children
- Family life and family relationships
- Work and gender roles
- Health, housing, and family planning
- The family in literature and media
- The family in times of conflict and change
- Sources consulted
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781414412665
- OCLC:
- 77517871
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