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Autonomy and Dependence in the Family Turkey and Sweden in Critical Perspective

Edited By Rita Liljestrom Copyright 2003
    296 Pages
    by Routledge

    296 Pages
    by Routledge

    296 Pages
    by Routledge
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    What are the future prospects of the modern family? For a long time the common image in the West has been to see the nuclear family, consisting of two economically independent spouses and their children, as the natural outcome of the modernization process. As the hierarchies of patriarchal society vanish, a social order based on equal and autonomous individuals all set for self-realisation has been assumed. However, high rates of divorce, often reported domestic violence, teenagers left on their own at an early age, do not harmonize very well with this idealized image. Critical analysis of family order in two countries at the opposite edges of the European continent - Turkey and Sweden - approaches these problems and attempts to create a more realistic picture of family life in the modern world.

    Acknowledgment Contrasting modernities Elisabeth Ozdalga PATTERNS OF AUTONOMY AND INTERDEPENDENCE Cross-cultural perspectives on family change Cigdem Kagitcibasi Married and degraded to legal minority: The Swedish married woman during the emancipation period, 1858-1921 Gunhild Kyle The strongest bond on trial Rita Liljestrom What the history of family counselling has to say about family relations Anna-Karin Kollind Urban migration and reconstruction of the kinship networks: the case of Istanbul Sema Erder Household and family in contemporary Turkey: an historical perspective Sharon Bastug FAIRNESS AND EQUITY The family and the welfare state: a route to de-familization Margareta Back-Wiklund Equality - a contested concept Ulla Bjornberg and Anna-Karin Kollind Who rules in the core of the family? Torgedur Einarsdottir Change and continuity in the Turkish middle class family Diane Sunar Family work in working class households in Turkey Hale Bolak Epilogue: Seeing oneself through the eyes of the other Rita Liljestrom and Elisabeth Ozdalga Appendix: Facts and figures about Turkey and Sweden Index List of participants.

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    Liljestrom, Rita

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