Volume 27, Number 10 · June 12, 1980
Life in the Therapeutic State
By Christopher Lasch
At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present
by Carl N. Degler
Oxford University Press, 514 pp., $19.95
The History of Sexuality Volume I: An Introduction
by Michel Foucault, translated by Robert Hurley
Pantheon, 159 pp., $8.95
The Policing of Families
by Jacques Donzelot, translated by Robert Hurley
Pantheon, 242 pp., $4.95 (paper)
The growth of the inward-turning, child-centered family, sociologists have long told us, is one of the distinguishing features of the transition from 'traditional' to modern society. In the last twenty years, this theme has been elaborated with an increasing abundance of documentation by social historians—Philippe Aries, Eli Zaretsky, Edward Shorter, Lawrence Stone, Nancy Cott, and now Carl Degler, to name only those who have attempted large syntheses.
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