Changing Family Values : Difference, Diversity and the Decline of Male Order (Paperback)

Notes on contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction: changing family values, 1 End of century, end of family?: shifting discourses of family‘ crisis’, 2 Men, heterosexuality and the changing family: (re)constructing fatherhood in law and social policy, 3 Will boys be left on the shelf?, 4 Lesbian and gay families: legal perspectives, 5 Poor choices?: gender, agency and the underclass debate, 6 ‘Family values’ and Conservative government policy: 1979?97, 7 Family values and the nation-state, 8 Unpicking political communitarianism: a critique of ‘the communitarian family’, 9 From modern nuclear family households to postmodern diversity? The sociological construction of ‘families’, 10 Virtual social science and the politics of family values in the United States, Name index, Subject index