Between sex and power : family in the world, 1900-2000 / Göran Therborn.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [318]-364) and index.

Introduction: Sex, Power, and Families of the World -- Patriarchy and Its Exits and Closures -- Modernities and Family Systems: Patriarchy around l900 -- A Long Night's Journey into Dawn -- The Patriarchal Burden of the Twenty-first Century -- Marriage and Mutations of the Socio-Sexual Order -- Sex and Marriage in l900 -- Marital Curvatures of the Twentieth Century -- The Return of Cohabitation and the Sexual Revolution -- Couples, Babies, and States -- Fertility Decline and Political Natalism -- The Politics and the Sociology of Birth Control -- Conclusion. The Century Gone, the Century Coming.