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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784202603321

Autore

Shapiro Michael J

Titolo

For moral ambiguity [[electronic resource] ] : national culture and the politics of the family / / Michael J. Shapiro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2001

ISBN

0-8166-9311-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Disciplina

306.85

Soggetti

Families in literature

Families in motion pictures

Families - Moral and ethical aspects

Families - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-206) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Resisting Resolution: Genre and the Family; 2. Contingency, Genealogy, and the Family; 3. Families, Strategies, Interests, and Public Life; 4. Literary Geography and Sovereign Violence: Resisting Tocqueville's Family Romance; 5. National Times and Other Times: Rethinking Citizenship; 6. Sovereignty, Dissymmetry, and Bare Life; Afterword; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Under the banner of family values, a war of more than words is being waged. At stake is the control of contemporary national culture-and the consciousness of succeeding generations. Michael J. Shapiro enters the fray with this galvanizing book, which exposes the assumptions, misconceptions, and historical inaccuracies that mark the neoconservative campaign to redeem an imagined past and colonize the present and future with a moral and political commitment to the ""traditional family.""