Zusammenfassung
At a time when same-sex marriage, gay adoption, and the rise of single-parent households challenge traditional views of the family, this innovative volume helps readers put such issues into social and legal perspective. Engster and Metz bring together essential readings in political and legal theory and organise them to illuminate pressing contemporary debates on the family: gender and justice, parents and children, the state and globalisation. Justice, Politics, and the Family is an engaging and a diverse addition to the area of critical legal theory and sociology.

Inhalt

Introduction, Daniel Engster, Tamara Metz; Part I What Is the "Family"?; Chapter 1 Postmodern Families, Judith Stacey; Chapter 2 The Family and Civic Life, Jean Bethke Elshtain; Chapter 3 Families as Relationships of Intimacy and Care, Traci M. Levy; Part II Justice, Gender, and the Family; Chapter 4 Justice, Gender, and the Family, Susan Moller Okin; Chapter 5 After the Family Wage, Nancy Fraser; Part III Parents and Children; Chapter 6 Is the Family to Be Abolished Then?, Véronique Munoz-Dardé; Chapter 7 The Place of Parenting within a Liberal Theory of Justice, Daniel Engster; Chapter 8 The Child's Right to an Open Future, Joel Feinberg; Part IV Families and the State; Chapter 9 The Myth of State Intervention in the Family, Frances E. Olsen; Chapter 10 Just Marriage, Mary Lyndon Shanley; Chapter 11 The Liberal Case for Disestablishing Marriage, Tamara Metz; Part V Multiculturalism, the Family, and Dilemmas of Justice; Chapter 12 Cultural Diversity and Child Protection, Alison Dundes Renteln; Chapter 13 Polygamy in America, Sarah Song; Part VI Globalization and the Family; Chapter 14 Global Care Chains and Emotional Surplus Value, Arlie Russell Hochschild; Chapter 15 Deportation and the Parent-Child Relationship, David B. Thronson;