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Author Fineman, Martha.

Title The autonomy myth : a theory of dependency / Martha Albertson Fineman.

Imprint New York : New Press, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  361.61 F494a 2004    ---  Available
Description xxiv, 387 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foundational myths: autonomy, dependency, and social debt -- Exploring foundational myths -- Dependency and social debt: cracking the foundational myths -- Institutionalizing autonomy -- The family in the rhetoric of civil society -- Why marriage? -- The future of marriage -- Feminist critiques of the family -- Feminism and the family: implementing equality, achieving autonomy -- Mothering in a gender-neutral world -- The autonomous individual and the autonomous family within the social contract -- The tentative workplace -- The tenable state -- What place for family privacy?
Subject United States -- Social policy -- 1993-
Family policy.
Autonomy (Philosophy)
Social justice.
Equality.
ISBN 1565849760 (pbk.)
1565847601 (hc)

 
    
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