Jennifer Somerville

Feminism and the Family: Politics and Society in the UK and USA

Herausgeber: Campling, Jo

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Why has the interlacing of gender issues and the family become a dominant strand of political discourse and policy development in the late twentieth century? Will the historical contradictions that have beset the relationship between the family and feminist aspirations continue through the new millennium? Is the 'new feminism' a resolution of these tensions or part of the 'anti-feminist backlash'? This study examines the continuing 'war over the family' in the USA and the UK in the context of major socio-economic and cultural changes that have fundamentally shifted the ground of traditional gender relations and redrawn the material and psychological conditions for family life in the next century.

Produktdetails

• Politics and Society in the UK
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic / Macmillan Education
• 2000
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 144mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9780333517017
• ISBN-10: 0333517016
• Artikelnr.: 26730758

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Somerville and Consultant Editor Jo Campling

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.
Historical Precedents.
Sex, the Nuclear Family and its Radical Opposition.
The Women's Liberation Movement and the Family.
Pro
Family Reaction.
The New Right: Anti
Feminism in Power?.
New Right Impasse on Family Policy.
Feminists Re
Consider the Family.
New Struggles for the Soul of Feminism.
Feminism and the Family: Still at Odds?.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.