Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged

Front Cover ......Page 1
Short Title ......Page 3
Title Page ......Page 5
Printer\'s imprint ......Page 6
Dedication ......Page 7
CONTENTS ......Page 9
Acknowledgments ......Page 13
Preface to the Paperback Edition ......Page 15
Introduction ......Page 21
Short Title (2) ......Page 27
the making of the modern family ......Page 29
the crisis of the family at the end of the nineteenth century ......Page 34
the proletarianization of parenthood ......Page 38
the rise of social science ......Page 48
general theories of the family\'s origin and evolution ......Page 51
the overthrow of evolutionary theories and the emergence of an empirical sociology of urbanization ......Page 55
marriage as a refuge from modern society ......Page 63
carle zimmerman and the conservative critique of the \"companionate\" family ......Page 70
willard waller: sociology as satire ......Page 76
the rating and dating complex: waller\'s critique of pure pleasure ......Page 82
attempted refutations of waller ......Page 85
4. Culture and Personality ......Page 88
the concept of personality ......Page 89
psychoanalysis as a theory of family dynamics: malinowski\'s \"refutation\" of freud ......Page 93
anthropology in the service of psychosexual reform ......Page 96
culture against \"biological determinism\": the controversy about freud\'s psychology of women ......Page 102
the alliance of revisionism and feminism ......Page 106
the authoritarian personality: reich, fromm, and the frankfurt school ......Page 111
society as the patient ......Page 123
friendship, the \"new religion\" ......Page 126
the new gospel of marriage and parenthood ......Page 133
the triumph of \"social relations\" ......Page 137
the family as a small group ......Page 140
socialization as therapy ......Page 144
the \"production of personality\" ......Page 151
the ideology of \"nonbinding commitments\" ......Page 160
main currents of sociological revisionism ......Page 167
pathology of the \"family drama\" ......Page 176
black \"matriarchy\": the controversy over the moynihan report ......Page 183
the rise of bourgeois domesticity and the religion of health ......Page 193
therapeutic ideals of the family and their impact on parenthood ......Page 197
parents and children ......Page 200
the normalization of the abnormal ......Page 205
corruption as a form of social control ......Page 209
Notes ......Page 217
Index ......Page 249
Rear Cover ......Page 258