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Children in Moral Danger and the Problem of Government in Third Republic France (Hardcover)
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Children in Moral Danger and the Problem of Government in Third Republic France (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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By exploring how children and their families became unprecedented
objects of governmental policy in the early decades of France's
Third Republic, Sylvia Schafer offers a fresh perspective on the
self-fashioning of a new governmental order. In the aftermath of
the Franco-Prussian War, social reformers claimed that children
were increasingly the victims of their parents' immorality. Schafer
examines how government officials codified these claims in the
period between 1871 and 1914 and made the moral status of the
family the focus of new kinds of legislative, juridical, and
administrative action. Although the debate on moral danger in the
family helped to articulate the young republic's claim to moral
authority in the metaphors of parenthood, the definition of "moral
endangerment" remained ambiguous. Schafer shows how public
authorities reshaped their agenda and varied their remedies as
their schemes for protecting morally endangered children broke down
under the enduring weight of this ambiguity. Drawing on insights
from feminist theory, literary studies, and the work of Michel
Foucault, Schafer reveals the cultural complexity of civil justice
and social administration in both their formal and everyday
incarnations. In demonstrating the centrality of ambivalence as a
condition of liberal government and governmental representations,
she fundamentally recasts the history of the early Third Republic
and, more widely, issues a powerful challenge to conventional views
of the modern state and its history. Originally published in 1997.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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