Autonomy And Dependence in The Family : Turkey and Sweden in Critical Perspective / editors Rita Liljestrom, Elisabeth Özdalga.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Contrasting Modernities / E. Özdalga -- 1. Patterns of autonomy and interdependence -- Cross cultural perspectives on family change / Ç. Kağıtçıbaş -- Married and degraded to legal minority : The Swedish married woman during the emancipation period, 1858-1921 / G. Kyle -- The strongest bond on trial / R. Liljeström -- What the history of family counselling has to say about family relations / Anna-Karin Kollind -- Household and family in contemporary Turkey : An historical perspective / Sharon Baştuğ -- Urban migration and reconstruction of the kinship networks. The case of Istanbul / Sema Erder -- Couples, children and families in pictures / Sema Erder -- 2. Fairness and equity -- The family and the welfare state : A route to de-familialization / M. Bäck-Wiklund -- Equality - a contested concept / Ulla Björnberg & Anna-Karin Kollind -- Who rules in the core of the family? / Torgedur Einarsdottir -- Change and continuity in the Turkish middle class family / D. Sunar -- Family work in working class households in Turkey / H. Bolak -- Epilogue: Seeing oneself through the eyes of the other / R. Liljeström & E. Özdalga.