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The award-winning historian Robert O. Self is the first to argue
that the separate threads of that realignment - from civil rights
to women's rights, from the antiwar movement to Nixon's "silent
majority," from the abortion wars to gay marriage, from the welfare
state to neoliberal economic policies - all ran through the
politicized American family. All in the Family is a revelatory
narrative about the activism on the left and the right that
reshaped postwar America. With authority and nuance, Self shows
that when we disagree about gender, sex, and family, we are really
disagreeing about equality, power, and money - in essence, about
the nature and role of government itself. As Mark Schmitt put it in
his glowing review in The Washington Monthly, Self, by
demonstrating that economic and social issues are one in the same,
has rewritten recent American political history "from its most
basic assumptions."
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.
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.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
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