Abstract
During the preparatory phase of the Seventh National Economic Plan for the years 1976–80, a number of working parties were set up to investigate themes such as life-styles, leisure and workers’ mobility. The intention behind these studies was to give a new dimension to the National Plans: they were to look further into the future and examine the social and cultural consequences of economic growth in order to ensure more integrated social planning. The first of the working parties to present its findings was the group called Prospective de la Famille. Many factors explain the priority given to this report: the amount of attention focused on the family in present-day French society; the concern expressed about demographic trends in relation to the family; and the current debate in the media and literature, exemplified in Texte 2.1, about the institutional functions of the family.
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Bibliographical guidance
General works examining historical and contemporary trends in marriage and the family in France:
A. Armengaud, La Famille et l’enfant en France et en Angleterre du XVI e au XVIII e siècle: aspects démographiques (Paris: Société d’Editions d’Enseignement Supérieur, 1975)
‘Finie la famille: traditions et nouveaux rôles’, Autrement, 3 (1975)
P. Brechon, La Famille: idées traditionnelles et idées nouvelles (Paris: Le Centurion, 1976)
Commissariat Général du Plan, La Famille (Paris: Hachette, 1975)
P. Desgraupes, ‘L’aventure inconnue de la famille’, Le Point, 148 (21 July 1975) 77–82, 149 (28 July 1975) 58–63, 150 (4 Aug 1975) 65–71, 151 (11 Aug 1975) 61–6, 152 (18 Aug 1975) 61–6, 153 (25 Aug 1975)66–71
A. Pitrou, Vivre sans famille? Les solidarités familiales dans le monde d’aujourd’hui (Toulouse: Privat, 1978)
L. Roussel, Le Mariage dans la société française: faits de population, données d’opinion (Paris: PUF, 1975)
N. Tabard, Besoins et aspirations des familles et des jeunes (Paris: CNAF, CREDOC, 1974)
Selected works about women in France:
Documentation Française, Les Femmes: guide bibliographique (Paris: Documentation Française, 1975)
‘Les droits de la femme’, Après-demain, 214–15 (May-June 1979)
S. de Beauvoir, Le Deuxième Sexe, 2 vols (Paris: Gallimard, 1949)
‘Vivre au féminin’, Cahiers français, 171 (May–Aug 1975)
F. Giroud, Cent Mesures pour les femmes (Paris: Documentation Française, 1976)
G. Halimi, La Cause des femmes (Paris: Grasset, 1973)
I. Journet-Durcat and P. Aulibe-Istin, La Femme et ses nouveaux droits (Paris: Michel, 1975)
A. Michel, Activité professionnelle de la femme et ses nouveaux droits (Paris: CNRS, 1974)
J. Rabaut, Histoire des féminismes français (Paris: Stock 1979)
E. Sullerot, Le Fait féminin (Paris: Fayard, 1978)
Reviews:
Various aspects of family building, divorce and the role of women in French society are analysed in the periodical literature, and the following should be consulted for up-to-date information on current trends: Données sociales, Economie et statistique, Population. The monthlies
Les Femmes en mouvement and F. Magazine analyse issues concerning women in France today.
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Hantrais, L. (1982). The Family. In: Contemporary French Society. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-86105-7_3
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