Всего публикаций в данном разделе: 3
Книги
Авторы: |
Названия: |
Опубликовано на портале: 28-11-2006
Robert P. George, Jean Bethke Elshtain
Spence Publishing Company, 2006, 336 с.
The movement for same-sex marriage has triggered an unprecedented crisis in the social
norms and laws governing marriage. All great civilizations have sought to unite,
in the institution of marriage, the goods of sexual intimacy, childbearing and childrearing,
and life-long love between adults. But the last five decades have witnessed the erosion
of marriage as a public institution in the developed world. The separation of the
goods previously united in marriage has led thoughtful people to question why marriage
should be denied to homosexuals.
This volume brings together the best of contemporary scholarship on marriage from
a variety of disciplines—history, ethics, economics, law and public policy,
philosophy, sociology, psychiatry, political science—to inform, and reform,
public debate. Rigorous yet accessible, these studies aim to rethink and re-present
the case for marriage as a positive institution and ideal that is in the public interest
and serves the common good.
The essays in this volume were presented to an audience of scholars, journalists,
public policy experts, and other professionals, at a conference sponsored by the
Witherspoon Institute. The authors are among the most eminent authorities on marriage
and public policy in the English-speaking world.


The Family in Question [книги]
Опубликовано на портале: 28-11-2006
Diana Gittins
Изд-во: Palgrave Macmillan, 1993, 218 с.
After a decade of Thatcherism, rising illegitimacy and the moral panic over child
sexual abuse, the family is more of a political issue than ever. But is it 'the family'
that is in crisis, or family ideology? In this revised edition of an important and
controversial book, Diana Gittins adds to a broad range of historical, anthropological
and feminist evidence, a new chapter on child sexual abuse.


Опубликовано на портале: 28-11-2006
Jerry A. Jacobs, Kathleen Gerson
Изд-во: Harvard University Press, 2005, 272 с.
In a panoramic study that draws on diverse sources, Jerry Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson
explain why and how time pressures have emerged and what we can do to alleviate them.
In contrast to the conventional wisdom that all Americans are overworked, they show
that time itself has become a form of social inequality that is dividing Americans
in new ways--between the overworked and the underemployed, women and men, parents
and non-parents. They piece together a compelling story of the increasing mismatch
between our economic system and the needs of American families, sorting out important
trends such as the rise of demanding jobs and the emergence of new pressures on dual
earner families and single parents.
Comparing American workers with their European peers, Jacobs and Gerson also find that policies that are simultaneously family-friendly and gender equitable are not fully realized in any of the countries they examine. As a consequence, they argue that the United States needs to forge a new set of solutions that offer American workers new ways to integrate work and family life.
Comparing American workers with their European peers, Jacobs and Gerson also find that policies that are simultaneously family-friendly and gender equitable are not fully realized in any of the countries they examine. As a consequence, they argue that the United States needs to forge a new set of solutions that offer American workers new ways to integrate work and family life.

