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Sexual Revolutions and the Future of the Family
Sexuelle Revolutionen und die Zukunft der Familie
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Abstract The family is the oldest human institution. Modernity began by replacing family-based organization with bureaucracy. The core of the family has become personal and sexual rather than political and economic. What is personal and sexual has become more a matter of individual choice than in the era of ... mehr
The family is the oldest human institution. Modernity began by replacing family-based organization with bureaucracy. The core of the family has become personal and sexual rather than political and economic. What is personal and sexual has become more a matter of individual choice than in the era of kinship politics; at the same time sexual behavior has become subject to state regulation, either restricting or permitting. From the early 20th century onwards, there have been increasingly militant social movements on one side or another of what is sexually permitted, encouraged, or prohibited. This paper reviews the sexual revolution in non-marital sex; the history of abortion struggles; mobilization of homosexual and transgender movements; and the battle of pronouns. Anti-abortion politics today is a counter-movement in identity politics, in response to the perceived threat to the traditional male/female family. Nevertheless, with a growing number of persons living alone and substituting electronic media for embodied social interaction, the family will likely survive as a privileged enclave of emotional solidarity and shared economic success.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Familie; Sexualität; Sexualverhalten; Identität; Schwangerschaftsabbruch; soziale Bewegung; Interaktion
Klassifikation
Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
identity politics; culture war; sexual revolution; anti-abortion politics
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Seitenangabe
S. 226-239
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 48 (2023) 1
Heftthema
Long-Term Processes in Human History
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)