For Moral Ambiguity : National Culture and the Politics of the Family /
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 his...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2001.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.