Stating the family : new directions in the study of American politics / edited by Julie Novkov and Carol Nackenoff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Novkov, Julie, 1966- editor.

Nackenoff, Carol, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Family policy--United States.

Family policy.

United States--Social policy.

United States.

United States--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 292 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2020]

Summary:

"The family has become a nodal point for the political disputes and social divisions that characterize the nation today, including matters such as marriage, gender identity, immigration reform, and welfare programs. The family is frequently discussed in party platforms and by political nominees, often marking the gulf between liberal and conservative. Despite the key role it plays in politics, public policy, and American political development, the family has not received the attention it is due by political scientists-especially privileged male scholars-who have largely disregarded the topic as belonging to a supposedly nonpolitical state of nature or "private sphere." More recently, however, theorists have explored the way the family affects the state and the state in turn affects, even constitutes, families. Family does not exist in a protected state of nature separate from the political, but instead both family and state determine each other. Extending this line of inquiry, the contributors to Stating the Family examine the role of family in American political development, particularly in the context of the rise of neoliberalism. While the family has been relied upon as the silent institutional partner of the state, neoliberal policies of privatization have undercut support for the family, which in turn has significant implications for the state. The contributors to Stating the Family cover such topics as marriage equality, interracial unions, birthright citizenship, immigration policy, and the role of the family in the political inclusion of women. Though the family has long been an invisible force within American political development, the essays in this volume help make visible the place of this important institution in the law, regulation, and policy of the American state"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword: Responsibility for the well-being of families / Joan Tronto

Introduction: Stated families, family stakes : the family, the American state, and political development / Julie Novkov and Carol Nackenoff

Democracy and family / June Carbone and Naomi Cahn

Obergefell, marriage, and the neoliberal politics of care / Tamara Metz

Constituting families : marriage equality activism, and the role of the state / Ellen Andersen

The legal construction of motherhood and paternity : interracial unions and the color line in antebellum Louisiana / Gwendoline Alphonso and Richard Bensel

A "bridge to our daughters" : Title IX fathers and policy development / Elizabeth Sharrow

The feudal family and American political development : separate spheres versus woman suffrage / Eileen McDonagh

Building the administrative state : courts and the admission of Chinese persons to the United States, 1870s-1920s / Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov

Deportability and (dis)unification : family status and U.S. immigration policy / Alison Gash and Priscilla Yamin

Conclusion / Julie Novkov and Carol Nackenoff.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7006-2924-6

OCLC:

1378934117