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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Shapiro, Michael J.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
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.