02766nam 2200613Ia 450 991078420260332120230607221000.00-8166-9311-0(CKB)1000000000346839(EBL)310545(OCoLC)560511256(SSID)ssj0000156731(PQKBManifestationID)11160549(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000156731(PQKBWorkID)10131328(PQKB)11634617(MiAaPQ)EBC310545(MdBmJHUP)muse39146(Au-PeEL)EBL310545(CaPaEBR)ebr10246353(CaONFJC)MIL522769(EXLCZ)99100000000034683920010329d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFor moral ambiguity[electronic resource] national culture and the politics of the family /Michael J. ShapiroMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20011 online resource (224 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-3854-3 0-8166-3853-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-206) and index.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; IndexUnder 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.""Families in literatureFamilies in motion picturesFamiliesMoral and ethical aspectsFamiliesPolitical aspectsFamilies in literature.Families in motion pictures.FamiliesMoral and ethical aspects.FamiliesPolitical aspects.306.85Shapiro Michael J55415MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784202603321For moral ambiguity3733008UNINA