Fundamental Differences Feminists Talk Back to Social Conservatives

by Burack, Cynthia; Josephson, Jyl J.; Biblarz, Timothy J.; Campbell, Nancy D.; Davion, Victoria; Fitzgerald, Jenrose; Franks, Suzanne E.; Haaken, Janice; Johnson, Valerie C.; Lamb, Sharon; Lehr, Valerie; Mink, Gwendolyn; Snyder, R Claire; Stacey, Judith

• ISBN13: 9780742519299
• ISBN10: 0742519295
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-16
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This book brings together lucid interdisciplinary critiques of social conservative politics and ideas in the areas of welfare, family and school policy, gender representation, and conservative doctrine.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(10)
Cynthia Burack
Jyl J. Josephson
Part I Taking Issue: Inquiries on Methods
They Blinded Me with Science: Misuse and Misunderstanding of Biological Theory	11	(16)
Suzanne E. Franks
(How) Does the Sexual Orientation of Parents Matter?	27	(38)
Judith Stacey
Timothy J. Biblarz
The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse Research	65	(16)
Janice Haaken
Sharon Lamb
Defense Mechanisms: Using Psychoanalysis Conservatively	81	(14)
Cynthia Burack
A Liberal Dose of Conservatism: The ``New Consensus'' on Welfare and Other Strange Synergies	95	(18)
Jenrose Fitzgerald
Part II Intimate Politics: Gender, Families, and Sexuality
Reading the Rhetoric of ``Compassionate Conservatism''	113	(14)
Nancy D. Campbell
``Family Values'': Social Conservative Power in Diverse Rhetorics	127	(16)
Valerie Lehr
Not Really a ``New Attitude'': Dr. Laura on Gender and Morality	143	(14)
Victoria Davion
Neopatriarchy and the Antihomosexual Agenda	157	(16)
R. Claire Snyder
The Missing Children: Safe Schools for Some	173	(16)
Jyl J. Josephson
Leaving Children Behind: Criminalizing Youth in American Schools	189	(18)
Valerie C. Johnson
From Welfare to Wedlock: Marriage Promotion and Poor Mothers' Inequality	207	(12)
Gwendolyn Mink
Index	219	(10)
About the Contributors	229