The Place of Families : : Fostering Capacity, Equality, and Responsibility / / Linda C. McClain.
In this bold new book, Linda McClain offers a liberal and feminist theory of the relationships between family life and politics--a topic dominated by conservative thinkers. McClain agrees that stable family lives are vital to forming persons into capable, responsible, self-governing citizens. But wh...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2006] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I Fostering Capacity
- 1 The Place of Families and Government in a Formative Project
- 2 Families as “Seedbeds of Civic Virtue”?
- 3 Care, Families, and Self-Government
- II Fostering Equality
- 4 Marriage Promotion, Marriage (E)quality, and Welfare Reform
- 5 Recognizing Same-Sex Marriage
- 6 Beyond Marriage?
- III Fostering Responsibility
- 7 Rights, (Ir)responsibility, and Reproduction
- 8 Teaching Sexual and Reproductive Responsibility
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index