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Foucault and family relations : governing from a distance in Australia / Malcolm Voyce.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Voyce, Malcolm, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex.
- Australia--Race relations.
- Australia.
- Race relations.
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
- Foucault, Michel.
- Families--Australia.
- Families.
- Sex--Australia.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 209 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]
- Contents:
- Introduction: the background to this book and the relevance of foucault
- The social context of farming
- The dispossession of Aboriginals from land: an application of Foucault's theories on race and sexuality
- Property and the governance of the family farm
- A reading of divorce judgments and reflections on 'spatiality' and 'sexuality'
- Governing at a distance: the role of trusts in structuring family life in rural Australia
- Towards a 'family provision jurisprudence': a case study on the farming inheritance cases
- Governing the rural family in Australia from a distance: the family provision act and the role of 'expert knowledges'
- Bibliography
- About the author.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781498559690
- 1498559697
- OCLC:
- 1084673077
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