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Family Values - Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism (Paperback)
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Family Values - Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism (Paperback)
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An investigation of the roots of the alliance between free-market
neoliberals and social conservatives. Why was the discourse of
family values so pivotal to the conservative and free-market
revolution of the 1980s and why has it continued to exert such a
profound influence on American political life? Why have free-market
neoliberals so often made common cause with social conservatives on
the question of family, despite their differences on all other
issues? In this book, Melinda Cooper challenges the idea that
neoliberalism privileges atomized individualism over familial
solidarities, and contractual freedom over inherited status.
Delving into the history of the American poor laws, she shows how
the liberal ethos of personal responsibility was always undergirded
by a wider imperative of family responsibility and how this
investment in kinship obligations is recurrently facilitated the
working relationship between free-market liberals and social
conservatives. Neoliberalism, she argues, must be understood as an
effort to revive and extend the poor law tradition in the
contemporary idiom of household debt. As neoliberal policymakers
imposed cuts to health, education, and welfare budgets, they
simultaneously identified the family as a wholesale alternative to
the twentieth-century welfare state. And as the responsibility for
deficit spending shifted from the state to the household, the
private debt obligations of family were defined as foundational to
socioeconomic order. Despite their differences, neoliberals and
social conservatives were in agreement that the bonds of family
needed to be encouraged-and at the limit enforced-as a necessary
counterpart to market freedom. In a series of case studies ranging
from Bill Clinton's welfare reform to the AIDS epidemic and from
same-sex marriage to the student loan crisis, Cooper explores the
key policy contributions made by neoliberal economists and legal
theorists. Only by restoring the question of family to its central
place in the neoliberal project, she argues, can we make sense of
the defining political alliance of our times, that between
free-market economics and social conservatism.
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