New Family Values provides a critical analysis of scholars and authors who argue that law and policy should be used to foster one model of family—the intact two-parent (heterosexual) family. The author argues that this position does not adequately address the problem in purports to solve -family dissolution—and unnecessarily constrains personal liberty. Civic stability and individual well-being require healthy families, but do not necessitate uniformity in family form.
In this book, Melinda Cooper challenges the idea that neoliberalism privileges atomized individualism over familial solidarities, and contractual freedom over inherited status.
Family Values reaffirms the vital importance of the family as a social institution while challenging its role in the reproduction of social inequality and carefully balancing the interests of parents and children.
An unpredictable and entertaining tale of secrets, desires, and forgiveness spanning four generations of an American family.
Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right chronicles how the family values agenda became so powerful in American political life and why it appealed to conservative evangelical Christians.
This rerelease of the popular original edition continues to speak to parents in a society where "family values" no longer seem to exist.
This is the first comprehensive study of the Christian Right's global reach and its impact on international law and politics.
They are before us and through us and after us. They are aggravating and glorious and inevitable. These stories poke gently into the corners of our experience with parents, siblings, significant others, and offspring.
Through compelling stories of real families navigating inescapable personal and political trade-offs between desire and domesticity, the book undermines popular convictions about family, gender, and sexuality held on the left, right, and ...
This book is ideal for courses covering the family, a central topic in sociology and women's studies.
This book which has been created in the framework of the EU-funded COST Action INTERFASOL brings together researchers from 22 INTERFASOL countries, who frame intergenerational family solidarity in the specific historical, cultural, social ...