Renewing the Family: A History of the Baby Boomers
Authors: Bonvalet, Catherine, Clément, Céline, Ogg, Jim
Free Preview- Provides a complete history of the baby boomers’ lives, from birth to today Explains the different experiences of French and English baby boomers
- Includes a comprehensive approach to the sociological changes of family life
- Entails rich qualitative data in the form of excerpts from 90 detailed interviews
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This book traces the history of the baby-boomers, beginning with an explanation of the cause of the post-war baby boom and ending with the contemporary concerns of ageing boomers. It shows how the baby-boomers challenged traditional family attitudes and adopted new lifestyles in the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on 90 interviews conducted with baby boomers living in London and Paris, the book demonstrates how their aspirations for leisure and consumption converged with family responsibilities and obligations. It shows how the baby boomers emerged from an authoritative upbringing to challenge some of the traditional assumptions of the family, such as marriage and cohabitation. The rise of feminism led by the baby-boomers is examined, together with its impact on family forms and structures. The book shows how women’s trajectories veered between the two extremes of family and employment, swerving between the models of stay-at-home mother and working woman. It demonstrates how new family configurations such as solo parenting, and recomposed families were adopted by the baby boomers. Today, as they enter into retirement, the baby-boomers remain closely involved in the lives of their children and parents, although relationships with elderly parents are maintained primarily through a sense of duty and obligation. The book concludes that the baby boomers have both been influenced by and actors to the changes and transformations that have occurred to family life. They reconciled and continue to reconcile, individualism with family obligations. As grandparents often with an ageing parent still alive, the baby boomers wish to keep the independence that has been the hallmark of their generation whilst not abandoning family life.
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“This is an excellent book and makes for a compelling read. The authors make a valuable contribution in documenting the many changes in family structure over the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st century, with a detailed portrait of a large generation that went along for the ride.” (Rosemary Venne, Canadian Studies in population, Vol. 42 (3-5), 2015)
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-13
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The Baby Boom Phenomenon
Pages 17-40
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The Baby Boomers’ Childhood
Pages 41-63
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The Family in Perpetual Motion
Pages 67-86
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Rebellious Teenagers
Pages 87-108
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Renewing the Family: A History of the Baby Boomers
- Authors
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- Catherine Bonvalet
- Céline Clément
- Jim Ogg
- Series Title
- INED Population Studies
- Series Volume
- 4
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-08545-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-08545-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-08544-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-36056-0
- Series ISSN
- 2214-2452
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 268
- Number of Illustrations
- 11 b/w illustrations
- Additional Information
- Original French edition published by the INED, Paris, 2011
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