1st Edition
Families of a New World Gender, Politics, and State Development in a Global Context
From Prague to Tennessee to Brazil, it's hard to find a consensus on what constitutes an average family. In today's world, the nuclear family is rarely the standard family structure, if it ever was. Families of a New World brings together an important collection of original works to examine our understanding of family around the world and how that understanding is shaped by state policy. Using examples from both historical and modern countries around the world, essays demonstrate not only how state policies shape what the family should look and act like, but also how governments have appropriated and regulated an approved ideal of the family to further their own agendas.
Biography
Lynne Haney is Assistant Professor of Sociology at New York University and author of Inventing the Needy. Lisa Pollard is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
"A compelling historical collection of theoretically driven essays about state policies and working families." -- Madonna Harrington Meyer, editor of Care Work: Gender, Labor and the Welfare State