Feminism and Families

Hilde Lindemann Nelson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9780415912532
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134716173
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Feminism & Feminist Theory
• Index: Social Sciences

A ground-breaking volume of all new essays covering the conjunction of two topics--feminism and families--that, for all their centrality in our culture, have not been adequately examined in light of one another. While the family has suffered feminist neglect, most women are in fact members of families, living their lives within the social context of families, even at a time when the concept of "family" has become bewilderingly unstable. The intersection of families and feminism is thus one in need of philosophical reflection, as a basis both for good public policy and for the ethical relationships of intimate life.

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Feminism and Families

Edited and with an Introduction

by Hilde Lindemann Nelson

First published 1997 by Routledge

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Feminism and families / edited and with an introduction by Hilde Lindemann Nelson.

p. cm.

Inclucles bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-0-415-91253-2 (hbk) — ISBN-13: 978-0-415-91254-9 (pbk)

DOI: 10.4324/9780203760413

1. Family. 2. Feminism. I. Nelson, Hilde Lindemann.

HQ734.F374 1996

306.85—dc20

96-28729

CIP

This book is for Margaret Urban Walker

Contents

• Introduction Hilde Lindemann Nelson
• I. HISTORIES
  • Families and Feminist Theory: Some Past and Present Issues Susan Moller Okin
  • The Myth of the Traditional Family Linda Nicholson
  • “The Family” and Radical Family Theory Naomi Zack
• II. THE BREAKDOWN OF THE FAMILY
  • Are Families Out of Date? Mary Midgley and Judith Hughes
  • Babystrike! Laura M. Purdy
  • Feminism by Any Other Name Michele M. Moody-Adams
  • Fluid Families: The Role of Children in Custody Arrangements Elise L.E. Robinson, Hilde Lindemann Nelson, and James Lindemann Nelson
• III. INTIMATE KNOWINGS
  • Privacy, Self-Knowledge, and Pluralistic Communes: An Invitation to the Epistemology of the Family John Hardwig
  • Addiction and Knowledge: Epistemic Disease and the Hegemonic Family Judith Bradford and Crispin Sartwell
• IV. WHO’S IN, WHO’S OUT?
  • Family Outlaws:...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Frontmatter 1
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Introduction—Hilde Lindemann Nelson
• I. HISTORIES
• II. THE BREAKDOWN OF THE FAMILY
• III. INTIMATE KNOWINGS
• IV. WHO’S IN, WHO’S OUT?
• V. FAMILIES AND MEDICINE
• VI. IMAGES WE DON’T NEED
• Contributors
• Index