Intimate States - Gender, Sexuality, and Governance in Modern US History (Hardcover)

Fourteen essays examine the unexpected relationships between government power and intimate life in the last 150 years of United States history. The last few decades have seen a surge of historical scholarship that analyzes state power and expands our understanding of governmental authority and the ways we experience it. At the same time, studies of the history of intimate life-marriage, sexuality, child-rearing, and family-also have blossomed. Yet these two literatures have not been considered together in a sustained way. This book, edited and introduced by three preeminent American historians, aims to close this gap, offering powerful analyses of the relationship between state power and intimate experience in the United States from the Civil War to the present. The fourteen essays that make up Intimate States argue that "intimate governance"-the binding of private daily experience to the apparatus of the state-should be central to our understanding of modern American history. Our personal experiences have been controlled and arranged by the state in ways we often don't even see, the authors and editors argue; correspondingly, contemporary government has been profoundly shaped by its approaches and responses to the contours of intimate life, and its power has become so deeply embedded into daily social life that it is largely indistinguishable from society itself. Intimate States makes a persuasive case that the state is always with us, even in our most seemingly private moments.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2021
Editors:	Margot Canaday • Nancy F Cott • Robert O. Self
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	360
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-79461-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	0-226-79461-X
Barcode:	9780226794617

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