Family Values - Divorce, Working Women, and Reproductive Rights in Twentieth-Century America

Clashes over the American family and its values have always implicitly or explicitly addressed issues of gender and highlighted the significance of present and future families to American society. This is the insight underpinning Isabel Heinemann's groundbreaking study, which traces, over the course of the twentieth century, debates on the family and its role; the relationship between the individual and society; and individual decision-making rights as well as their denial or curtailment. Unpacking these issues in a vivid and innovative analysis, the book recounts the prehistory of current conflicts over the family and gender while illuminating the relationship between social change, normative shifts, and the counter-movements spawned in response to them.

About the author

Isabel Heinemann, University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Isabel Heinemann
• Assisted by: Alex Skinner (Translation)
• Publisher: Oldenbourg
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 30.06.2025
• EAN: 9783112214947
• ISBN: 978-3-11-221494-7
• No. of pages: 498
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 30 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 743 g
• Illustrations: 25 b/w ill., 4 b/w tbl.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Ehe, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, History, Marriage, gesellschaftlicher Wandel, Family, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, United States of America, auseinandersetzen, HIS000000 HISTORY / General, Frauenarbeit, HIS037070 HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, HIS054000 HISTORY / Social History, Periode des Kalten Krieges (ca. 1945 bis ca. 1990), HIS036060 HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HIS037100 HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Cold War, HIS036000 HISTORY / United States / General, HIS058000 HISTORY / Women, Working women, societal change