Changing Family Values: Difference, Diversity and the Decline of Male Order - Hardcover

 
9780415149587: Changing Family Values: Difference, Diversity and the Decline of Male Order
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415149584 ISBN 13: 9780415149587
Verlag: Routledge, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Changing Family Values offers a comprehensive introduction to contemporary debates and new research surrounding the family. It explores how we define traditional family values and how these values are perceived as being underthreat in contemporary society. Ranging across politics, social policy, law and sociology, the contributors focus on the diverse realities of contemporary family life. Issues covered include:
* the recent backlash against single mothers
* lesbian and gay families and the law
* men's changing roles within the family
* the future of the nuclear family.
This book is ideal for courses covering the family, a central topic in sociology and women's studies.

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Reseña del editor

Changing Family Values offers a comprehensive introduction to contemporary debates and new research surrounding the family. It explores how we define traditional family values and how these values are perceived as being underthreat in contemporary society. Ranging across politics, social policy, law and sociology, the contributors focus on the diverse realities of contemporary family life. Issues covered include:
* the recent backlash against single mothers
* lesbian and gay families and the law
* men's changing roles within the family
* the future of the nuclear family.
This book is ideal for courses covering the family, a central topic in sociology and women's studies.

Reseña del editor

What is meant by a crisis in the family? in recent years 'the family' has become the controversial focus for many of the important issues Western societies are now facing at the end of the century. it has become commonplace to talk about a 'crisis' in the family which threatens the very fabic of society and for politicians to prescribe a 'return to family values'. But what does any of this actually mean? Changing Family Values explores these questions from a wide variety of perspectives. Ranging across politics, social policy, the law, sociology and history, the contributors focus on the diverse realities of contemporary family life. Issues covered include * The recent backlash against single mothers. * Lesbian and Gay families and the law * Men's changing roles within the family * The family and the 'underclass' debate *The future of the 'nuclear family' This edited collection offers a comprehensive introduction to contemporary debates and new research surrounding the family. It will therefore appeal to students in a range of disciplines including sociology, social policy and gender aand women's studies. Caroline Wright,University of Warwick, Gill Jagger,Leeds Metropolitan University, Lorraine Fox-Harding,University of Leeds. Paul Gilbert,University of Hull, Professor Ju

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0415149584
ISBN 13 
9780415149587
Einband
Tapa dura
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
224
Herausgeber
Jagger Gill, Wright Caroline
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