ISBN:
9780816638536
,
0816638543
,
0816638535
,
9780816693115
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 211 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version For Moral Ambiguity : National Culture and the Politics of the Family
DDC:
306.85
Keywords:
Family Political aspects
;
Family Moral and ethical aspects
;
Family in literature
;
Family in motion pictures
;
Families ; Moral and ethical aspects
;
Families ; Political aspects
;
Families in literature
;
Families in motion pictures
;
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Abstract:
Under the banner of family values, a war of more than words is being waged. At stake is the control of contemporary national culture-and the consciousness of succeeding generations. Michael J. Shapiro enters the fray with this galvanizing book, which exposes the assumptions, misconceptions, and historical inaccuracies that mark the neoconservative campaign to redeem an imagined past and colonize the present and future with a moral and political commitment to the "traditional family."
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Resisting Resolution: Genre and the Family; 2. Contingency, Genealogy, and the Family; 3. Families, Strategies, Interests, and Public Life; 4. Literary Geography and Sovereign Violence: Resisting Tocqueville's Family Romance; 5. National Times and Other Times: Rethinking Citizenship; 6. Sovereignty, Dissymmetry, and Bare Life; Afterword; Notes; Index;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-206) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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