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Changing family values / edited by Gill Jagger and Caroline Wright. - viii, 214 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: changing family values -- End of century, end of family?: shifting discourses of family 'crisis' -- Men, heterosexuality and the changing family: (re)constructing fatherhood in law and social policy -- Will boys be left on the shelf? -- Lesbian and gay families: legal perspectives -- Poor choices?: gender, agency and the underclass debate -- 'Family values' and Conservative government policy: 1979-97 -- Family values and the nation-state -- Unpicking political communitarianism: a critique of 'the communitarian family' -- From modern nuclear family households to postmodern diversity? The sociological construction of 'families' -- Virtual social science and the politics of family values in the United States -- Name index -- Subject index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

ISBN: 0415149584 9780415149587

LCCN: 98036492

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Families
Family policy
Single-parent families
Work and family
Gay fathers--Family relationships
Lesbian mothers--Family relationships
Fathers--Psychology.
Feminist theory.

LC Class. No.: HQ518. / C48 1999

Dewey Class. No.: 306.85