The Golden Chain : : Family, Civil Society and the State / / ed. by Jürgen Nautz, Paul Ginsborg, Ton Nijhuis.

The family can be viewed as one of the links in a “golden chain” connecting individuals, the private sphere, civil society, and the democratic state; as potentially an important source of energy for social activity; and as the primary institution that socializes and diffuses the values and norms tha...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Studies on Civil Society ; 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource (324 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • EDITORS’ PREFACE
  • PART I Introduction and Overview
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Chapter 1 UNCHARTED TERRITORIES: INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE DEMOCRATIC STATE
  • PART II Feminist Historical Views
  • Chapter 2 GENDERED BOUNDARIES: CIVIL SOCIETY, THE PUBLIC/PRIVATE DIVIDE AND THE FAMILY
  • Chapter 3 THE FAMILY, CIVIL SOCIETY AND SOCIAL POLICY A US PERSPECTIVE
  • Chapter 4 FEMINIST MOBILISATION AND FAMILY CHANGE: A CASE STUDY OF A GRASSROOTS WOMEN’S ORGANISATION IN QUEBEC: THE AFEAS (1966–1989)
  • Part III Family and Society in South and Western Europe: Case Studies
  • Chapter 5 Corporate Birthmarks of Civil Society: Kinship and Kinship Networks in Voluntary Associations, 1800–1848
  • Chapter 6 STATE, SOCIETY AND FAMILY CHANGE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY SPAIN THE EVOLUTION OF THE ‘STRONG FAMILY MODEL’
  • Chapter 7 THE FOUNDATION OF CIVILISED SOCIETY: FAMILY AND SOCIAL POLICY IN BRITAIN AND ITALY BETWEEN 1946 AND 1960
  • Chapter 8 CHILDREN AND CIVIL SOCIETY
  • PART IV State and Changing Families in Eastern Europe and the Middle East
  • Chapter 9 THE FAILURES OF MODERNITY: FAMILY, CIVIL SOCIETY AND STATE IN THE PASSAGE FROM OTTOMAN EMPIRE TO TURKISH REPUBLIC
  • Chapter 10 ISRAEL AND PALESTINE THROUGH FAMILY, CIVIL SOCIETY AND STATE AN OVERVIEW
  • Chapter 11 GENDERED BOUNDARIES BETWEEN THE STATE, FAMILY AND CIVIL SOCIETY THE CASE OF POLAND AFTER 1989
  • Chapter 12 FAMILY STRUCTURES AND CIVIL SOCIETY PERSPECTIVES IN PRESENT-DAY SERBIA
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX