Feminism and the Family

Politics and Society in the UK and USA

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Feminism and the Family

Politics and Society in the UK and USA

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Description

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.

Table of Contents

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.

Product details

Published Nov 17 2000
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 288
ISBN 9780333517017
Imprint Red Globe Press
Dimensions Not specified
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Jennifer Somerville

Dr JENNIFER SOMERVILLE is Dean of Faculty of Envir…

Anthology Editor

Jo Campling

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