UID:
almahu_9949597655902882
Format:
1 online resource :
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9780801468407 (ebook) :
Content:
In France as elsewhere in recent years, legislative debates over single-parent households, same-sex unions, new reproductive technologies, transsexuality, and other challenges to long-held assumptions about the structure of family and kinship relations have been deeply divisive. What strikes many as uniquely French, however, is the extent to which many of these discussions-whether in legislative chambers, courtrooms, or the mass media-have been conducted in the frequently abstract vocabularies of anthropology and psychoanalysis. This book seeks to explain why and how academic discourses on kinship have intersected and overlapped with political debates on the family-and on the nature of French republicanism itself.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2013.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780801451294
Language:
English
URL:
Cornell scholarship online
