All in the family
Subtitle: the realignment of American democracy since the 1960s
By: Robert O. Self
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9780809095025
Subjects: Social values; Social conditions; Politics and government; Families
Description: Historians have sought to explain the nation's profound political realignment from the 1960s to the 2000s, five decades that witnessed the fracturing of liberalism and the rise of the conservative right. Self argues that the separate threads of that realignment-- from civil rights to women's rights, from abortion wars to gay marriage-- all ran through the politicized American family. This establishment of new rights and the visibility of alternative families provoked, beginning in the 1970s, a furious conservative backlash. Self provides a passionate explanation of our current political situation and how we arrived in it, allowing us to think anew about the last fifty years of American politics.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: This is a man's world, 1964-1973; title: Are you man enough? Sixties breadwinner liberalism; title: Last man to die: Vietnam and the citizen soldier; title: Homosexual tendencies: gay men and sexual citizenship; title: The subjection of women, 1964-1976; title: The working mother has no wife: the dilemmas of market and motherhood; title: Bodies on trial: the politics of reproduction; title: American sappho: the lesbian political imagination; title: The permissive society, 1968-1980; title: Wild before the fire: the sexual politics of an erotic revolution; title: No steelworkers and no plumbers: liberalism in trouble; title: A strange but righteous power: the breadwinner conservatism of forgotten Americans; title: A process of coming out: from liberation to gay politics; title: Family values, 1973-2011; title: The price of liberty: antifeminism and the crisis of the family; title: Go ye into all the world: god, family, and country in the fourth great awakening; title: Ancient roots: the Reagan Revolution's gender and sexual politics; title: Epilogue: neoliberalism and the making of the culture war.