Transformations of Patriarchy in the West, 1500-1900
Subtitle: 1500-1900 (Interdisciplinary Studies in History)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: January 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780253334695
Subjects: Cultural studies; Social history; World history: c 1500 to c 1750; World history: c 1750 to c 1900; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Sociological Theory; History; History - General History; History: World; Other Geographical Groupings, Oceans & Seas; Sociology - Marriage & Family; World - General; Historical sociology; Patriarchy; Social Institutions; Social control
First sentence: The complexities of early modern European history, with its regional differences and uneven development, cannot be covered in a few pages.
Description: This wide-ranging study of familial, political, and economic change in the West between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries is organized around two themes: the rise and fall of a patriarchalist social order and its replacement by fraternal forms of governance; and the attempts by various reformers to instill self-mastery, originally expected of monks and masters, into subject populations, and the frequently unforeseen effects of this process.

By linking schooling, state-building, and transformations of patriarchal forms of governance, the book also reopens the debate about the social forces that produced state school systems and about the ways schools affected people and institutions. Clear and accessible throughout, the book will be of interest to scholars and students in history, sociology, education, women's and gender studies, and cultural studies.