Kniha Measuring Immorality Gail Reekie

Measuring Immorality

Social Inquiry and the Problem of Illegitimacy

Autor: Gail Reekie
Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Pevná
Dostupnost: 50 % šance
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Why do conservative politicians and scholars in Britain, Australia and the United States continue to...

Informace o knize

Autor
Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydáno
1998
Stránek
224
EAN
9780521620345
ISBN
0521620341
Enbook ID
02037714
Hmotnost
560
Rozměry
152 x 228 x 23

Kompletní popis

Why do conservative politicians and scholars in Britain, Australia and the United States continue to view rising rates of out-of-wedlock births and teenage pregnancies as a threat to civilised society? This book examines the process by which social science transforms a biological event - a birth - into a social and moral problem. Drawing on Foucault's 'archaeology of knowledge', Reekie stresses the role of statistics and other social-scientific discourses in the emergence of the illegitimacy 'problem' in the early nineteenth century and its continuing cultural significance. The book illustrates the continuity in concerns about illegitimacy, including pressure on the welfare system, fears of racial and intellectual denigration, the detrimental nature of fatherless families, and the association of rising illegitimacy with the supposed selfishness of excessively independent women.

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