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In The Policing of Families , Jacques Donzelot, a student and colleague of Michel Foucault, offers an account of public intervention in the regulation of family affairs since the 18th 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 a multitude of social practices and discourses, Donzelot examines the role of philanthropy, social work, compulsory mass education, and psychiatry in the contol of family life, and describes the transformation of mothers into agents of the state. Donzelot 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-139780801856495
eBay Product ID (ePID)86465508
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Number of Pages242 Pages
Publication NameThe Policing of Families
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1997
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaChildren & Family
AuthorJacques Donzelot
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height229 mm
Item Weight330 g
Item Width152 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorJacques Donzelot
TopicPopular Philosophy
