Analysing families : morality and rationality in policy and practice / edited by Alan Carling, Simon Duncan and Rosalind Edwards.
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- Analyzing families
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
[PART 1 Introduction] Family policy, social theory and the state / Alan Carling -- A portrait of Western families: new models of intimate relationships and the timing of life events / Maria José González-López
[PART 2 Perspectives on family policy] Individualisation, assumptions about the existence of an adult worker model and the shift towards contractualism / Jane Lewis -- The Family Law Act, 1996 / Adrian James -- The Green Paper Supporting families, 1998 / Mavis MacLean -- Re-analysing the Black family / Tracey Reynolds -- Cultural change and family policies in East and West Germany / Brigit Pfau-Effinger and Brigit Geissler -- Family policy and the maintenance of the traditional family in Spain / Lluís Flaquer -- Working and caring for children: family policies and balancing work and family in Sweden / Ulla Bjórnberg -- Paternalism, welfare reform and poor families in the United States / Alan Deacon -- New Labour, the rationality mistake and family policy in Britain / Anne Barlow, Simon Duncan and Grace James -- A third way? Moralities, ethics and families: an approach through the ethic of care / Selma Sevenhuijsen
[PART 3 Family practices] Sociological perspectives on the family / David Morgan -- Policy and rhetoric: the growing interest in fathers and grandparents in Britain / Lynda Clarke and Ceridwen Roberts -- Caring, earning and changing: parenthood and employment after divorce / Bren Neale and Carol Smart -- The individual in public and private: the significance of mothers and children / Jane Ribbens McCarthy and Rosalind Edwards -- Elective families: lesbian and gay life experiments / Jeffrey Weeks
[PART 4 Modelling families] Economic theory, norms and the care gap, or: why do economists become parents? / Susan Himmelweit -- The "balance model": theorising women's employment behaviour / Judith Glover -- Computer simulation of family practices / Edmund Chattoe
[PART 5 Conclusion] Families, moralities, rationalities and social change / Graham Crow
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