The Law of Kinship : : Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France / / Camille Robcis.

In France as elsewhere in recent years, legislative debates over single-parent households, same-sex unions, new reproductive technologies, transsexuality, and other challenges to long-held assumptions about the structure of family and kinship relations have been deeply divisive. What strikes many as...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 7 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part One: The Rise of Familialism
  • 1. Familialism and the Republican Social Contract
  • 2. Kinship and the Structuralist Social Contract
  • 3. The Circulation of Structuralism in the French Public Sphere
  • Part Two: The Critique of Familialism
  • 4. The “Quiet Revolution” in Family Policy and Family Law
  • 5. Fatherless Societies and Anti- Oedipal Philosophies
  • Part Three: The Return of Familialism
  • 6. Alternative Kinships and Republican Structuralism
  • Epilogue: Kinship, Ethics, and the Nation
  • Bibliography
  • Index