The perils of patriarchy.

From: Journal of Social History | Date: December 22, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

Studies of family dynamics in Early Modern Europe frequently deepen the furrows traced out in the sources historians exploit. The dominant tendency now is to treat the evolution of the modern western family as part of a broader process of social control. Thomas Robisheaux sees the enhancement of parental and paternal power in Germany as the consequence of grim Malthusian realities. James Farr understands a parallel development in France as the outcome of intellectual elites applying their social representations about gender inequality on women and children. Oscar Di Simplicio focuses rather ...

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