

An edition of AUTONOMY AND DEPENDENCE IN THE FAMILY: TURKEY AND SWEDEN IN CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE; ED. BY RITA LILJESTROM (2002)
Turkey and Sweden in critical perspective
By Elisabeth Özdalga
Publish Date
2002
Publisher
Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul
Language
eng
Pages
286
Description:
What are the future prospects of the modern family? For a long time the common image in the West has been to see the nuclear family, consisting of two economically independent spouses and their children, as the natural outcome of the modernization process. As the hierarchies of patriarchal society vanish, a social order based on equal an autonomous individuals all set for self-realization has been assumed.