The State of Families - Law, Policy, and the Meanings of Relationships (Hardcover)

The State of Families: Law, Policy, and the Meanings of Relationships collects essential readings on the family to examine the multiple forms of contemporary families, the many issues facing families, the policies that regulate families, and how families-and family life-have become politicized. This text explores various dimensions of "the family" and uses a critical approach to understand the historical, cultural, and political constructions of the family. Each section takes different aspects of the family to highlight the intersection of individual experience, structures of inequality-including race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, and immigration-and state power. Readings, both original and reprinted from a wide range of experts in the field, show the multiple forms and meanings of family by delving into topics including the traditional ground of motherhood, childhood, and marriage, while also exploring cutting edge research into fatherhood, reproduction, child-free families, and welfare. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the family, The State of Families offers students in the social sciences and professionals working with families new ways to identify how social structure and institutional practice shape individual experience.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2020
First published:	2021
Editors:	Jennifer Reich
Dimensions:	254 x 178mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	462
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-02772-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
LSN:	0-367-02772-0
Barcode:	9780367027728

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