"Part One: Family Paradoxes" 1. INTRODUCTION 2. THE FAMILY AND THE HISTORIAN Modernisation and the Family Separation of home and work? The emergence of the nuclear family? The family becomes an emotional haven? The increasing involvement of the state? 3. CONCEPTUALIZING THE FAMILY The construction of the individual, self and person The religious and secular self Self, property and the law The feeling and sexual self The sociological and psychological self Postmodern and feminist self The construction of kinship The construction of home and household The construction of identity Identity and family Identity, naming and imagined families "Part Two: Families 1830-1914" 4. SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE The Nineteenth Century Material life Ideas, beliefs and institutions Patterns of family life The upper strata Working-class families Middle-class families Sexuality and the fertility transition Institutional life 5. FATHERS AND FATHERHOOD: FAMILY AUTHORITY Rights and duties of fathers Changing ideas about fatherly care Public and private identities 6. DOMESTIC SERVICE AND LODGING Doing Family Work The service relationship Masculine and feminine domains Terms of service Servants and childhood Dynamics of power in domestic service Lodging "Part Three: Families 1914-1960" 7. CHANGES IN FAMILY LIFE The Twentieth Century Changing patterns of family life Material and economic developments Inheritance strategies Social regulation of families Family time: rituals and leisure activities 8. FAMILY SHADOWS: UNMARRIED WOMEN The sister's tale: Daisy Brown The daughter's tale: Bridget Perkins The midwife's tale: Ellen Stephens The aunt's tale: Alice Barker 9. FAMILY SILENCES: UNTOLD STORIES Secrecy, sexuality and society Self, family and society A well of silence: Tony's story 10. CONCLUSION: FAMILY FUTURES Bibliography Appendix: Legislation Affecting the Family Index