1st Edition
Radical Challenges to the Family From the Sixties to Same-Sex Marriage
Preface; Introduction: radical challenges to the family in a contemporary context; In the blink of an eye: the transitory modern family; Here comes the bride: marriage as a historical institution; In a world of its own: the strange modern family; The family: still a historic defeat for women?; A room with no view: the family and housewifery; ‘Little children are sacred’: the family’s raison d’être?; A tale of two halves? The family, monogamy, and relationships under capitalism; Subversion or sleaze? Pornography, the family, monogamy, and relationships; ‘Blood is stronger than bigotry’? The family and homosexual oppression; Love and other disasters: the family, monogamy, and relationships in the eyes of LGBT people; Rainbow wedding: the politics of same-sex marriage; The great indoors: haven in a heartless world, or, enemy of community?; Conclusion: beyond the family
Biography
Ashley Lavelle is Lecturer in Politics at Macquarie University, Australia, and is the author The Death of Social Democracy and The Politics of Betrayal.
’Ashley Lavelle places the nuclear family on its knees, to use his words - demonstrating how the women's movement and gay rights movement have radically re-designed the family. In this lively account, the book examines the ways in which attitudes towards the family have shifted since the 1960s, affecting gender roles, children, relationships, monogamy, and same-sex marriage.’ Esther Rothblum, San Diego State University, USA and editor of Journal of Lesbian Studies
