The making of the modern family

The Argument -- Household And Community In Traditional Society -- Men And Women In Traditional Society -- The Two Sexual Revolutions -- Romance -- Mothers And Infants -- The Rise Of The Nuclear Family -- The Reason Why -- Towards A Postmodern Family (or, Setting The Course For The Heart Of The Sun) -- Fertility Rates For The Pre-1850 Period By Social Class -- Problems And Statistical Sources In The Measurement Of Illegitimacy And Premarital Pregnancy, Sixteenth-to-twentieth Centuries -- Age Differences Between Spouses, Seventeenth-to-twentieth Centuries -- Probable Month Of Conception, Selected Places, Seventeenth-to-twentieth Centuries -- Infant Mortality Rates, Seventeenth-to-twentieth Centuries. Edward Shorter. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 360-362.