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Families of a new world : gender, politics, and state development in a global context / edited by Lynne Haney, Lisa Pollard.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York ; London : Routledge, 2003Description: viii, 300 s. illISBN:
  • 0415934478
  • 041593446X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.8509 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ515
Other classification:
  • Oac
  • Ohfc
  • Ohj
Contents:
Introduction : in a family way : theorizing state and familial relations / Lynne Haney and Lisa Pollard -- Familialism as state imagining. The promise of things to come : the image of the modern family in state-building, colonial occupation, and revolution in Egypt (1805-1922) / Lisa Pollard. Familiar territory : prostitution, empires and the question of U.S. imperialism in Puerto Rico, 1849-1916 / Laura Briggs. Imagining the "new Jewish family" : gender and nation in early zionism / Alison Rose -- Familialism as state building. "Rooted in the soil" : family ideals, land reclamation and irrigation resettlement as welfare in the United States, 1897-1933 / Laura Lovett. The state and the widow : pension debates in inter-war years Australia / Joy Damousi. Domesticating men : state-building and class compromise in popular front Chile / Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt -- Colonial Africa : transforming families for their own benefit (and ours) / Cynthia Brantley -- Familialism as state reform. Welfare reform with a familial face : reconstituting state and domestic relations in post-socialist Eastern Europe / Lynne Haney. They say 'oh God, I don't want to live like her!': the marginalization of mothering in postsocialist Germany / Elizabeth C. Rudd. Caught between the family and the state : China's migrant women in an era of reform / Eileen M. Otis. Citizens, workers, or fathers? : men in the history of U.S. social policy / Ann Shola Orloff -- Afterword : machines for civilization? / Sonya Michel.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : in a family way : theorizing state and familial relations / Lynne Haney and Lisa Pollard -- Familialism as state imagining. The promise of things to come : the image of the modern family in state-building, colonial occupation, and revolution in Egypt (1805-1922) / Lisa Pollard. Familiar territory : prostitution, empires and the question of U.S. imperialism in Puerto Rico, 1849-1916 / Laura Briggs. Imagining the "new Jewish family" : gender and nation in early zionism / Alison Rose -- Familialism as state building. "Rooted in the soil" : family ideals, land reclamation and irrigation resettlement as welfare in the United States, 1897-1933 / Laura Lovett. The state and the widow : pension debates in inter-war years Australia / Joy Damousi. Domesticating men : state-building and class compromise in popular front Chile / Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt -- Colonial Africa : transforming families for their own benefit (and ours) / Cynthia Brantley -- Familialism as state reform. Welfare reform with a familial face : reconstituting state and domestic relations in post-socialist Eastern Europe / Lynne Haney. They say 'oh God, I don't want to live like her!': the marginalization of mothering in postsocialist Germany / Elizabeth C. Rudd. Caught between the family and the state : China's migrant women in an era of reform / Eileen M. Otis. Citizens, workers, or fathers? : men in the history of U.S. social policy / Ann Shola Orloff -- Afterword : machines for civilization? / Sonya Michel.