1. Public and Private Spheres in France
by Antoine Prost

Introduction

Changing Workers and Workplaces

The Family and the Individual

The Transition from Neighborhood to Metropolis

2. A History of Secrets?
by Gérard Vincent

The Secrets of History and the Riddle of Identity

Family Secrets

The Body and the Enigma of Sex

3. Cultural Diversity in France
by Gérard Vincent, Perrine Simon-Nahum, Rémi Leveau, Dominique Schnapper

Catholics: Imagination and Sin

Communism as a Way of Life

French Judaism

The Role of Immigrants

4. Nations of Families
by Kristina Orfali, Chiara Saraceno, Ingeborg Weber-Kellerman, Elaine Tyler May

The Rise and Fall of the Swedish Model

The Italian Family: Paradoxes of Privacy
Translated by Raymond Rosenthal

The German Family between Private Life and Politics
Translated and Edited by Mary Jo Maynes and Michele Mouton

Myths and Realities of the American Family

Notes

Bibliography

Credits

Index

Georges Duby, a member of the Académie Française, is Professor of Medieval History at the Collège de France.

Arthur Goldhammer received the French-American Translation Prize in 1990 for his translation of A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution.

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