Tabla de Contenidos: “…Challenging the fragmentation of the male life cycle through the First World War pension archives -- 5 Reimagining working-class masculinities in the twentieth century -- 6 Perceptions of crisis in the history of masculinity -- Reflection -- III Everyday lives -- 7 Gender, locality, and culture -- 8 Struggling ‘heroes’ -- 9 Fathers, sons, and ‘normal’, ‘ordinary’ family life, 1945–1974 -- Reflection -- IV Bodies -- 10 Dirty magazines, clean consciences -- 11 ‘It’s more what me and my partner feel comfortable with’ -- Reflection -- Conclusion -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…as a basic, open and neutral moral question -- A focus in exploring what family might mean: givenness and dependence -- The current state of the family -- Family as a moral problem -- Gabriel Marcel: Approaching family as mystery -- A mystery approach as a theological contribution to family research -- The mystery approach of this book -- The Family Tie as Mystery ; Family ties in Sophocles' Antigone -- Judith Butler's trouble reading Antigone in view of family -- The ethical complexity of Hegel's view of family -- The critical potential of Hegel's attention for the unreflective morality of family -- Conclusion: The unnameable family tie and the divine law -- Family and givenness as mystery -- Rembrandt: What may the image of an ordinary family scene evoke? -- Contemporary views of givenness as the natural: Brenda Almond and Don Browning -- Understanding kinship as made instead of given in recent anthropology -- Conclusion: Family as a 'strong image' and taking givenness actively -- Family and dependence as mystery ; Hosea's lived image of an adulterous family -- Acknowledging dependence and a suspicion against family in current (care) ethics -- Constructive approaches to family as revealing fundamental dependence: Friedrich Schleiermacher and Jean Lacroix -- Conclusion: A mystery approach to overcome the impasses of dependence -- Epilogue: Morality of appeal and answer - Ethics and the sacred character of the family as mystery…”

“…"Tough time never last," he writes, "but tough people all way do." The details of ordinary family life and community survival include descriptions of cooking, farming, gambling, visiting, playing, doctoring, hunting, bootlegging, and picking cotton, as well as going to school, to church, to funerals, to weddings, to Juneteenth celebrations. …”