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Intimate States - Gender, Sexuality and Governance in Modern Us History (Paperback)
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Intimate States - Gender, Sexuality and Governance in Modern Us History (Paperback)
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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.
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