Families of a new world : gender, politics, and state development in a global context / edited by Lynne Haney, Lisa Pollard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haney, Lynne A. (Lynne Allison), 1967-

Pollard, Lisa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--History.

Families.

History.

Family policy--Cross-cultural studies.

Family policy.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

viii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

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. "Families of a New World" brings together an important 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.

Contents:

Introduction : in a family way : theorizing state and familial relations / Lynne Haney and Lisa Pollard

Familialism as state imagining. 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. Familiar territory : prostitution, empires, and the question of U.S. imperialism in Puerto Rico, 1849-1916 / Laura Briggs. Imagining the "new Jewish family" : gender and nation in early zionism / Alison Rose

Familialism as state building. "Rooted in the soil" : family ideals, land reclamation, and irrigation resettlement as welfare in the United States, 1897-1933 / Laura Lovett. The state and the widow : pension debates in inter-war years Australia / Joy Damousi. Forging families : gender, reform, and the popular-front state in Chile / Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt. Colonial Africa : transforming families for their own benefit (and ours) / Cynthia Brantley

Familialism as state reform. Welfare reform with a familial face : reconstituting state and domestic relations in post-socialist Eastern Europe / Lynne Haney. "They say 'oh God, I don't want to live like her!'" : the marginalization of mothering in German post-socialism / Elizabeth C. Rudd. Reinstating the family : gender and the state-formed foundations of China's flexible labor force / Eileen M. Otis. Markets not states? : the weakness of state social provision for breadwinning men in the United States / Ann Shola Orloff.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-293) and index.

ISBN:

041593446X

0415934478

OCLC:

50604840