Families of a New World: Gender, Politics, and State Development in a Global Context

ISBN-13: 9780415934473 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 308 str.

Lynne A. Haney; Lisa Pollard

Opis

From Prague to Tennessee to Brazil, it's hard to find a consensus on what constitutes an average family. In today's world, the nuclear family is rarely the standard family structure, if it ever was. This book brings together a collection of original works to examine our understanding of family around the world and how that understanding is shaped by state policy. Using examples from both historical and modern countries around the world, essays demonstrate not only how state policies shape what the family should look and act like, but also how governments have appropriated and regulated an approved 'ideal' of the family to further their own agendas.

Recenzje

"A compelling historical collection of theoretically driven essays about state policies and working families." -- Madonna Harrington Meyer, editor of Care Work: Gender, Labor and the Welfare State

Spis treści

1. Introduction: In a Family Way: Theorizing State and Familial Relations Lynne Haney and Lisa Pollard PART ONE: FAMILIALISM AS STATE IMAGINING 2. The Promise of Things to Come: The Image of the Modern Family in State-Building, Colonial Occupation and Revolution in Egypt (1805-1922) Lisa Pollard 3. Familiar Territory: Prostitution, Empires and the Question of U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico, 1849-1916 Laura Briggs 4. Imagining the New Jewish Family: Gender and Nation in Early Zionism Alison Rose PART TWO: FAMILIALISM AS STATE BUILDING 5. Rooted in the Soil: Family Ideals, Land Reclamation and Irrigation Resettlement as Welfare in the United States, 1897-1933 Laura Lovett 6. The State and the Widow: Pension Debates in Inter-War Years Australia Joy Damousi 7. Domesticating Men: State-Building and Class Compromise in Popular Front Chile Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt 8. Colonial Africa: Transforming Families for Their Own Benefit (and Ours) Cynthia Brantley PART THREE: FAMILIALISM AS STATE REFORM 9. Welfare Reform with a Familial Face: Reconstituting State and Domestic Relations in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe Lynne Haney 10. They say 'Oh God, I don't want to live like her!' The Marginalization of Mothering in Postsocialist Germany Elizabeth C. Rudd 11. Caught Between the Family and the State: China's Migrant Women in an Era of Reform Eileen M. Otis 12. Citizens, Workers or Fathers? Men in the History of U.S. Social Policy Ann Shola Orloff

O autorze

Lynne Haney is Assistant Professor of Sociology at New York University and author of Inventing the Needy. Lisa Pollard is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.