| Description |
xxvii, 242 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword: The Rise of the Social / Gilles Deleuze -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Preservation of Children -- 3. Government Through the Family. A. Moralization. B. Normalization. C. Contract and Tutelage -- 4. The Tutelary Complex. A. The Setting. B. The Code. C. The Practices -- 5. The Regulation of Images. A. The Priest and the Doctor. B. Psychoanalysis and Familialism. C. Familial Strategy and Social Normalization. D. The Advanced Liberal Family: Freud and Keynes |
| Summary |
A student and colleague of Michel Foucault offers an account of public intervention in the regulation of family affairs since the eighteenth century, showing how this intervention effected radical changes in the structure of what had traditionally been a private domain. Treating the family as a focal point of multiple social practices and discourses, Donzelot examines the role of philanthropy, social work, compulsory mass education, and psychiatry in the control of family life and describes the transformation of mothers into agents of the state. Also provides a critique of Marxist, psychoanalytic, and feminist conceptions of the family and shows how the policies of the state and the professions moulded working-class and middle-class families in quite different ways |
| Notes |
Originally published as: La police des familles by Les Editions de Minuit, c1977 ; First American ed. published: New York : Pantheon, c1979 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Families -- France -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
France -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051496
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| Author |
Hurley, Robert, translator
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| LC no. |
97001666 |
| ISBN |
0801856493 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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