Analysing families : morality and rationality in policy and practice /
Analysing families : morality and rationality in policy and practice /
Analyzing families
edited by Alan H. Carling, Simon Duncan, and Rosalind Edwards.
- xx, 303 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Family policy, social theory and the state / A portrait of Western families: new models of intimate relationships and the timing of life events / Perspectives on family policy. Political intervention and family policy in Britain. Individualisation, assumptions about the existence of an adult worker model and the shift towards contractualism / The Family Law Act, 1996 / The Green Paper Supporting Families, 1998 / Re-analysing the Black family / Political intervention and family policy in Europe and the USA. Cultural change and family policies in East and West Germany / Family policy and the maintenance of the traditional family in Spain / Working and caring for children: family policies and balancing work and family in Sweden / Paternalism, welfare reform and poor families in the United States / New Labour, the rationality mistake and family policy in Britain / A third way? Moralities, ethics and families: an approach through the ethic of care / Family practices. Sociological perspectives on the family / Policy and rhetoric: the growing interest in fathers and grandparents in Britain / Caring, earning and changing: parenthood and employment after divorce / The individual in public and private: the significance of mothers and children / Elective families: lesbian and gay life experiments / Modelling families. Economic theory, norms and the care gap, or: why do economists become parents? / The 'balance model': theorising women's employment behaviour / Computer simulation of family practices / Conclusion. Families, moralities, rationalities and social change / Alan Carling. Maria Jose Gonzalez-Lopez -- Jane Lewis. Adrian James. Mavis MaClean. Tracey Reynolds. Birgit Pfau-Effinger and Birgit Geissler. Lluis Flaquer. Ulla Bjornberg. Alan Deacon. Anne Barlow, Simon Duncan and Grace James. Selma Sevenhuijsen -- David Morgan. Lynda Clarke and Ceridwen Roberts. Bren Neale and Carol Smart. Jane Ribbens McCarthy and Rosalind Edwards. Jeffrey Weeks -- Susan Himmelweit. Judith Glover. Edmund Chattoe -- Graham Crow. Pt. I. 1. 2. Pt. II. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. 4. 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4. 5. 6. Pt. III. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Pt. IV. 12. 13. 14. Pt. V. 15.
0415250404 (pbk.) 0415250390
2001045712
Families--Great Britain
Families--Europe
Family policy--Great Britain
Family policy--Europe
HQ614. / A679 2002
306.85
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Family policy, social theory and the state / A portrait of Western families: new models of intimate relationships and the timing of life events / Perspectives on family policy. Political intervention and family policy in Britain. Individualisation, assumptions about the existence of an adult worker model and the shift towards contractualism / The Family Law Act, 1996 / The Green Paper Supporting Families, 1998 / Re-analysing the Black family / Political intervention and family policy in Europe and the USA. Cultural change and family policies in East and West Germany / Family policy and the maintenance of the traditional family in Spain / Working and caring for children: family policies and balancing work and family in Sweden / Paternalism, welfare reform and poor families in the United States / New Labour, the rationality mistake and family policy in Britain / A third way? Moralities, ethics and families: an approach through the ethic of care / Family practices. Sociological perspectives on the family / Policy and rhetoric: the growing interest in fathers and grandparents in Britain / Caring, earning and changing: parenthood and employment after divorce / The individual in public and private: the significance of mothers and children / Elective families: lesbian and gay life experiments / Modelling families. Economic theory, norms and the care gap, or: why do economists become parents? / The 'balance model': theorising women's employment behaviour / Computer simulation of family practices / Conclusion. Families, moralities, rationalities and social change / Alan Carling. Maria Jose Gonzalez-Lopez -- Jane Lewis. Adrian James. Mavis MaClean. Tracey Reynolds. Birgit Pfau-Effinger and Birgit Geissler. Lluis Flaquer. Ulla Bjornberg. Alan Deacon. Anne Barlow, Simon Duncan and Grace James. Selma Sevenhuijsen -- David Morgan. Lynda Clarke and Ceridwen Roberts. Bren Neale and Carol Smart. Jane Ribbens McCarthy and Rosalind Edwards. Jeffrey Weeks -- Susan Himmelweit. Judith Glover. Edmund Chattoe -- Graham Crow. Pt. I. 1. 2. Pt. II. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. 4. 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4. 5. 6. Pt. III. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Pt. IV. 12. 13. 14. Pt. V. 15.
0415250404 (pbk.) 0415250390
2001045712
Families--Great Britain
Families--Europe
Family policy--Great Britain
Family policy--Europe
HQ614. / A679 2002
306.85