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Tables of Contents for Approaches to the History of the Western Family, 1500-1914
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
vii
Note on references
vii
Introduction
1
3
The demographic approach
4
21
Marriage rates and ages
5
1
Patterns of childbearing
6
2
Extramarital conceptions
8
1
Size and membership of the household
9
5
Critique of the demographic approach
14
11
The sentiments approach
25
24
The segregation of the conjugal unit-privacy and domesticity
31
2
Changing attitudes to interpersonal relationships
33
2
Spouse selection
35
3
The functions of marriage
38
1
Illegitimacy and changing attitudes to sex
39
5
Parenthood and childhood
44
2
The prime movers of social change
46
3
The household economics approach
49
19
Inheritance
50
3
The family economy of the western peasant
53
5
The proletarianisation of labour
58
10
Update to cover literature published between 1980 and 1994
68
7
Select bibliography
75
11
Index
86