The Place of Families : Fostering Capacity, Equality, and Responsibility / Linda C. McClain.
2006
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Title
The Place of Families : Fostering Capacity, Equality, and Responsibility / Linda C. McClain.
Author
McClain, Linda C., author.
ISBN
9780674275157
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2006]
Copyright
©2006
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (392 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674275157 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.8/0973
Summary
In this bold new book, Linda McClain offers a liberal and feminist theory of the relationships between family life and politics--a topic dominated by conservative thinkers. McClain agrees that stable family lives are vital to forming persons into capable, responsible, self-governing citizens. But what are the public values at stake when we think about families, and what sorts of families should government recognize and promote? Arguing that family life helps create the virtues and character required for citizenship, McClain shows that the connection between family self-government and democratic self-government does not require the deep-laid gender inequality that has historically accompanied it. Examining controversial issues in family law and policy--among them, the governmental promotion of heterosexual marriage and the denial of marriage to same-sex couples, the regulation of family life through welfare policy, and constitutional rights to reproductive freedom--McClain argues for a political theory of the family that embraces equality, defends rights as facilitating responsibility, and supports families in ways that respect men's and women's capacities for self-government.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I Fostering Capacity
1 The Place of Families and Government in a Formative Project
2 Families as "Seedbeds of Civic Virtue"?
3 Care, Families, and Self-Government
II Fostering Equality
4 Marriage Promotion, Marriage (E)quality, and Welfare Reform
5 Recognizing Same-Sex Marriage
6 Beyond Marriage?
III Fostering Responsibility
7 Rights, (Ir)responsibility, and Reproduction
8 Teaching Sexual and Reproductive Responsibility
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I Fostering Capacity
1 The Place of Families and Government in a Formative Project
2 Families as "Seedbeds of Civic Virtue"?
3 Care, Families, and Self-Government
II Fostering Equality
4 Marriage Promotion, Marriage (E)quality, and Welfare Reform
5 Recognizing Same-Sex Marriage
6 Beyond Marriage?
III Fostering Responsibility
7 Rights, (Ir)responsibility, and Reproduction
8 Teaching Sexual and Reproductive Responsibility
Epilogue
Notes
Index