Household Constitution and Family Relationships

The emergence of the current field of women’s history was contemporaneous with the rise of interest in family history and demographic history. While these fields are separable because of their differing emphases and because of differing practitioners’ goals or interests, their subject matters often overlap. Analysis and interpretation of women’s domestic lives has required investigation into the same data of household structure and family relationships over time that family and demographic history explore. This volume includes signal early articles in the history of the family, which helped to inform the emerging field of women’s history. It represents also the continuing stream of articles on women’s social history treating marital or parent-child relationships, or the nonconforming instance of the single woman, in different regions and among many ethnic and racial groups in the U.S.