Families of a New World: Gender, Politics, and State Development in a Global Context

by Haney,Lynne; Haney,Lynne

• ISBN13: 9780415934466
• ISBN10: 041593446X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

From Prague to Tennessee to Brazil, it's hard to find a consensus on what constitutes an average family. In today's world, the nuclear family is rarely the standard family structure, if it ever was.Families of a New Worldbrings together an important collection of original works to examine our understanding of family around the world and how that understanding is shaped by state policy. Using examples from both historical and modern countries around the world, essays demonstrate not only how state policies shape what the family should look and act like, but also how governments have appropriated and regulated an approved "ideal" of the family to further their own agendas.

Author Biography

Lynne Haney is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University Lisa Pollard is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction In a Family Way: Theorizing State and Familial Relations	1	(16)
Lynne Haney
Lisa Pollard
Part One 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	17	(23)
Lisa Pollard
Familiar Territory: Prostitution, Empires, and the Question of U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico, 1849--1916	40	(24)
Laura Briggs
Imagining the ``New Jewish Family'': Gender and Nation in Early Zionism	64	(21)
Alison Rose
Part Two FAMILIALISM AS STATE BUILDING
``Rooted in the Soil'': Family Ideals, Land Reclamation, and Irrigation Resettlement as Welfare in the United States, 1897--1933	85	(14)
Laura Lovett
The State and the Widow: Pension Debates in Inter-War Years Australia	99	(20)
Joy Damousi
Forging Families: Gender, Reform, and the Popular Front State in Chile	119	(20)
Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt
Colonial Africa: Transforming Families for Their Own Benefit (and Ours)	139	(20)
Cynthia Brantley
Part Three FAMILIALISM AS STATE REFORM
Welfare Reform with a Familial Face: Reconstituting State and Domestic Relations in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe	159	(20)
Lynne Haney
``They Say, `Oh God, I Don't Want to Live Like Her!''': The Marginalization of Mothering in German Post-Socialism	179	(17)
Elizabeth C. Rudd
Reinstating the Family: Gender and the State-Formed Foundations of China's Flexible Labor Force	196	(21)
Eileen M. Otis
Markets Not States?: The Weakness of State Social Provision for Breadwinning Men in the United States	217	(28)
Ann Shola Orloff
Notes	245	(50)
Contributors	295	(2)
Index	297