ABSTRACT
From Prague to Tennessee to Brazil, it's hard to find a consensus on what constitutes an average family. In today's world, the nuclear family is rarely the standard family structure, if it ever was. Families of a New World brings together an important collection of original works to examine our understanding of family around the world and how that understanding is shaped by state policy. Using examples from both historical and modern countries around the world, essays demonstrate not only how state policies shape what the family should look and act like, but also how governments have appropriated and regulated an approved ideal of the family to further their own agendas.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|67 pages
Familialism as State Imagining
chapter 2|23 pages
The Promise of Things to Come
chapter 3|24 pages
Familiar Territory
part Two|73 pages
Familialism as State Building
chapter 5|14 pages
“Rooted in the Soil”
part Three|87 pages
Familialism as State Reform