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Thicker than water : siblings and their relations, 1780-1920
- Title
- Thicker than water : siblings and their relations, 1780-1920 / Leonore Davidoff.
- Author
- Davidoff, Leonore.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
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- Description
- xii, 449 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-438) and index.
- Contents
- Part 1. Exploring kin and their kind. Kin and family : expert opinions and popular views ; Finding siblings -- Part 2. The lattice of kinship : a historical case study. The people and the setting ; The 'Long family' and its decline ; A like unlike : siblings in childhood and youth ; A dance of intimacy and separation : siblings in adulthood ; Forgotten figures : aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins -- Part 3. Life's longest relationship : essays on sibling themes. Sibling intimacy and the question of incest ; The rise and fall of close marriage ; Gender, age, and authority : the case of Anne, William Ewart, and Helen Gladstone ; Sibling silences : the Freud family ; Sibling loss.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-5344
- ISBN
- 9780199546480 (hbk.)
- 0199546487
- LCCN
- 2011534226
- OCLC
- 751725964
- Author
- Davidoff, Leonore.
- Title
- Thicker than water : siblings and their relations, 1780-1920 / Leonore Davidoff.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-438) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-5344