Research Catalog

Title

Family shifts : families, policies, and gender equality / Margrit Eichler.

Author

Eichler, Margrit

Publication

Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1997.

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Details

Description

v, 273 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Family Shifts looks at how families and family policies have evolved during this century; how different trends have affected families in the past and present; how spousal and parental roles have changed; how many policies are based on an inappropriate model of the family (the individual responsibility model): and how a new model of the family - the social responsibility model - might improve family policies. Family Shifts will be of interest to the general public as well as to specialists in family law, sociology, social work, family studies, policy studies, Canadian studies, and policy makers."--Jacket.

Subject

• Families > Canada
• Families
• Famille
• Family policy > Canada
• Family policy
• Politique familiale
• Rôle selon le sexe
• Sex role
• Sex role > Canada

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-268) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

From the patriarchal model to the individual responsibility model of the family -- Social, economic, and legal trends affecting families -- The blurring of spousal roles -- Uncertain parental roles -- Internal contradictions: why the individual responsibility model cannot work -- From refurbishing the past to abolishing the family: three proposed solutions -- The social responsibility model of the family -- Practical applications of the social responsibility model.

ISBN

0195412508 (acid-free paper) :

LCCN

^^^97162451^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library