Changing family values : difference, diversity and the decline of male order / / edited by Gill Jagger and Caroline Wright

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: viii, 214 p
• Disciplina: 306.85
• Soggetto topico: Families; Family policy; Single-parent families; Work and family; Gay fathers - Family relationships; Lesbian mothers - Family relationships; Fathers - Psychology; Feminist theory
• Altri autori: JaggerGill <1965-> WrightCaroline <1965->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: chapter Introduction -- Changing family values / Gill Jagger -- chapter 1 End of century, end of family?: shifting discourses of family‘ crisis’ -- Shifting discourses of family ‘crisis’ / Caroline Wright and Gill JaggerIn -- chapter 2 Men, heterosexuality and the changing family -- (Re)constructing fatherhood in law and social policy / Richard Collier -- chapter 3 Will boys be left on the shelf? / Sue Lees -- chapter 4 Lesbian and gay families -- Legal perspectives / Kath O’Donnell -- chapter 5 Poor choices? -- Gender, agency and the underclass debate / Kirk Mann -- chapter 6 ‘Family values’ and Conservative government policy: 1979–97 / Lorraine Fox Harding -- chapter 7 Family values and the nation-state / Paul Gilbert -- chapter 8 Unpicking political communitarianism -- A critique of ‘the communitarian family’ / Elizabeth Frazer -- chapter 9 From modern nuclear family households to postmodern diversity? -- The sociological construction of ‘families’ / Jo VanEvery -- chapter 10 Virtual social science and the politics of family values in the United States / Judith Stacey.
• Sommario/riassunto: Changing Family Values offers a comprehensive introduction to contemporary debates and new research surrounding the family. It explores how we define traditional family values and how these values are perceived as being underthreat in contemporary society. Ranging across politics, social policy, law and sociology, the contributors focus on the diverse realities of contemporary family life. Issues covered include: * the recent backlash against single mothers * lesbian and gay families and the law * men's changing roles within the family * the future of the nuclear family. This book is ideal for courses covering the family, a central topic in sociology and women's studies.
• Titolo autorizzato: Changing family values
• ISBN: 1-134-75036-6; 0-415-14958-4; 1-134-75037-4; 1-280-07456-6; 0-203-47958-0; 1-4356-3236-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910171009303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II