Thicker Than Water - Siblings and Their Relations, 1780-1920

A pioneering new study of nineteenth-century kinship and family relations, focusing on the British middle class, and highlighting both the similarities and the differences in relations between brothers and sisters in the past and in the present.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Part I: Exploring Kin and their Kind


• 1: Kin and Family: Expert Opinions and Popular Views


• 2: Finding Siblings


• Part II: The Lattice of Kinship: A Historical Case Study


• 3: The People and the Setting


• 4: The 'Long Family' and Its Decline


• 5: A Like Unlike: Siblings in Childhood and Youth


• 6: A Dance of Intimacy and Separation: Siblings in Adulthood


• 7: Forgotten Figures: Aunts, Uncles, Nieces, Nephews, and Cousins


• Part III: Life's Longest Relationship: Essays on Sibling Themes


• 8: Sibling Intimacy and the Question of Incest


• 9: The Rise and Fall of Close Marriage


• 10: Gender, Age, and Authority: The case of Anne, William Ewart, and Helen Gladstone


• 11: Sibling Silences: The Freud Family


• 12: Sibling Loss


• Conclusion


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Leonore Davidoff is a Research Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. She has held visiting professorships and fellowships in the US, Australia, Sweden, and several other European countries. Her main area of research is the relationship between the family and economic organization in the period of nascent capitalist development from around 1780 to 1920. She has also pioneered the history of gender relations and in 1987 she became Founding Editor of Gender and History.

Summary

A pioneering new study of nineteenth-century kinship and family relations, focusing on the British middle class, and highlighting both the similarities and the differences in relations between brothers and sisters in the past and in the present.

Additional text

Davidoff succeeds in demonstrating both the strangeness of the past and its relevance to the contemporary world where in the absence of a range of siblings young people begin to think of their friends as part of their family.

Product details

• Authors: Leonore Davidoff, Leonore (Research Professor Davidoff, Davidoff Leonore
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2013
• EAN: 9780199678365
• ISBN: 978-0-19-967836-5
• No. of pages: 464
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Sociology: family & relationships, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, Sociology: family and relationships, C 1700 To C 1800