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ODDS:Women and  \u003Cbr>the Family in America from  \u003Cbr>the Revolution to the Present  \u003Cbr>by Carl Degler  \u003Cbr>Oxford University Press,$19.95   | the desires of women as individuals (in  \u003Cbr>a culture which inculcates individual-  \u003Cbr>ism)and the desires of many of the  \u003Cbr>same women as mainstays and moral  \u003Cbr>guides of the family (the sphere in  \u003Cbr>which that culture placed women as a  \u003Cbr>group).  \u003Cbr>In the process of amassing his evi-  \u003Cbr>dence,Degler provides the general  \u003Cbr>reader with a wealth of up-to-date in-  \u003Cbr>formation garnered from primary and  \u003Cbr>first-rate secondary sources.Since fam-  \u003Cbr>ily historians tend towards statistics  \u003Cbr>while women's historians make use of  \u003Cbr>personal,qualitative data,the book  \u003Cbr>merges methods as well as material.It  \u003Cbr>is fascinating to hear nineteenth cen-  \u003Cbr>tury women speak in their own words  \u003Cbr>about such intimate matters as court-  \u003Cbr>ship,pregnancy and marital relation-  \u003Cbr>ships.Harriet Beecher Stowe,for ex-  \u003Cbr>ample,recognized that the reality  \u003Cbr>of married life included\"wearing,  \u003Cbr>wasting days and nights\"but luckily  \u003Cbr>she had the moral wit to inform her  \u003Cbr>clergyman husband that God didn't in-  \u003Cbr>tend the family to be her\"chief good  \u003Cbr>and portion.”  \u003Cbr>A number of women are quite can-  \u003Cbr>did about feminine sexual feelings in  \u003Cbr>the presumably reticent,even re-  \u003Cbr>pressive Victorian era.Elizabeth Cady  \u003Cbr>Stanton,for example,took Walt Whit-  \u003Cbr>man to task for his opinion in“There  \u003Cbr>is a Woman Waiting for Me”(1883)  \u003Cbr>that women needed forcing in order to   | enjoy sex.And Elizabeth Blackwell  \u003Cbr>confessed to her niece in 1887 that  \u003Cbr>\"From the age of seven when I first fell  \u003Cbr>in love...I have always been keenly  \u003Cbr>susceptible to the influence of sex.\"  \u003Cbr>The discipline Blackwell exercised to  \u003Cbr>achieve her career as America's first  \u003Cbr>woman doctor—she remained single—  \u003Cbr>was also demonstrated by nineteenth  \u003Cbr>century women as a whole.Degler  \u003Cbr>states that\"The decline in fertility  \u003Cbr>(50%between 1800-1900)is certainly  \u003Cbr>the single most important fact about  \u003Cbr>women and the family in American  \u003Cbr>history.\"He attributes the decrease  \u003Cbr>primarily to the determination of  \u003Cbr>women in a time when few acceptable  \u003Cbr>means of contraception were available.  \u003Cbr>Readers of At Odds will be treated to  \u003Cbr>a rich variety of information served in  \u003Cbr>the same mix of personal and objective  \u003Cbr>data:changing attitudes to children  \u003Cbr>and child-rearing(the notion of \"inno-  \u003Cbr>cent childhood”and even the practice  \u003Cbr>of having birthday parties began in this  \u003Cbr>period);the particular problems of  \u003Cbr>Afro-American and immigrant fami-  \u003Cbr>lies;the transformation of work as in-  \u003Cbr>dustrialization attracted women from  \u003Cbr>the home and farm;the space that  \u003Cbr>religion provided for women to exer-  \u003Cbr>cise leadership in pursuit of moral  \u003Cbr>causes that affected the family like  \u003Cbr>temperance and censorship.  \u003Cbr>A number of ironic conflicts are ex-  \u003Cbr>posed:Women's attempts to gain \"the   |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Reviewed by SALLY CUNNEEN,an  \u003Cbr>editor of Cross Currents and author of  \u003Cbr>several books including A Contempo-  \u003Cbr>rary Meditation on the Everyday God.   |  |  |\n| IT might seem strange to those outside  \u003Cbr>academe that even revisionist his-  \u003Cbr>torians have hitherto treated women's  \u003Cbr>history and the history of the family as  \u003Cbr>if the two were not related.The latter  \u003Cbr>have rarely written as if women were  \u003Cbr>active forces in the family's develop-  \u003Cbr>ment,while historians of women have  \u003Cbr>tended to neglect the powerful ties  \u003Cbr>between women and famiy.Fortu-  \u003Cbr>nately Carl Degler,Professor of  \u003Cbr>American History at Stanford Univer-  \u003Cbr>sity and author of several earlier books  \u003Cbr>including the Pulitzer prize-winning  \u003Cbr>Neither Black Nor White,has now pro-  \u003Cbr","cbCaihnvOWG1BrEa","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihnvOWG1BrEa","pdf",3439312,"English","# COMPLETE...IN THIS ISSUE...\n## AT ODDS: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present\n## Reviewed by SALLY CUNNEEN\n## Continue our all-too-brief preview of fall book highlights\n## STOP PISHING! 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