1st Edition
Family Affairs A History of the Family in Twentieth-Century England
By Mary Abbott
Copyright 2003
208 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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The decades between the close of World War I and the end of the Thatcher era have changed and challenged family life in England dramatically. The Depression and World War II shifted priorities and behaviour, as did the Welfare State, the Pill and Women's Lib later on. What threatened a family's respectability in the 1920s is often commonplace today - abortion, contraception, the single parent... Read more
Introduction 1 Cultural tribes 2 Between the wars, 1920–1939 3 ‘Not brave, just British’, 1939–1945 4 A better world, 1945–1960 5 Runaway world, 1960–1979 6 A decadent, undisclipined society? 1980–1990 Conclusion: prophesies fulfilled?
Biography
Mary Abbott teaches at the Anglia Polytechnic University in Cambridge. Her previous publications include Family Ties: English Families 1540–1920 (Routledge 1993) and Life Cycles in England 1560–1720: Cradle to Grave (1996).
