Justice, Politics, and the Family

Daniel Engster, Tamara Metz

Brings together essential readings in political and legal theory to illuminate pressing contemporary debates on the family.

Introduction, Daniel Engster, Tamara Metz; Part I What Is the "Family"?; Chapter 1 Postmodern Families, Judith Stacey; Chapter 2 The Family and Civic Life, Jean Bethke Elshtain; Chapter 3 Families as Relationships of Intimacy and Care, Traci M. Levy; Part II Justice, Gender, and the Family; Chapter 4 Justice, Gender, and the Family, Susan Moller Okin; Chapter 5 After the Family Wage, Nancy Fraser; Part III Parents and Children; Chapter 6 Is the Family to Be Abolished Then?, Véronique Munoz-Dardé; Chapter 7 The Place of Parenting within a Liberal Theory of Justice, Daniel Engster; Chapter 8 The Child's Right to an Open Future, Joel Feinberg; Part IV Families and the State; Chapter 9 The Myth of State Intervention in the Family, Frances E. Olsen; Chapter 10 Just Marriage, Mary Lyndon Shanley; Chapter 11 The Liberal Case for Disestablishing Marriage, Tamara Metz; Part V Multiculturalism, the Family, and Dilemmas of Justice; Chapter 12 Cultural Diversity and Child Protection, Alison Dundes Renteln; Chapter 13 Polygamy in America, Sarah Song; Part VI Globalization and the Family; Chapter 14 Global Care Chains and Emotional Surplus Value, Arlie Russell Hochschild; Chapter 15 Deportation and the Parent-Child Relationship, David B. Thronson;