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 what are the public
values at stake when we think about families, and what sorts of
families should government recognize and promote?
Arguing that family life helps create the virtues and character
required for citizenship, McClain shows that the connection between
family self-government and democratic self-government does not
require the deep-laid gender inequality that has historically
accompanied it. Examining controversial issues in family law and
policy--among them, the governmental promotion of heterosexual
marriage and the denial of marriage to same-sex couples, the
regulation of family life through welfare policy, and
constitutional rights to reproductive freedom--McClain argues for a
political theory of the family that embraces equality, defends
rights as facilitating responsibility, and supports families in
ways that respect men's and women's capacities for
self-government.
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