Measuring Immorality

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Social Inquiry and the Problem of Illegitimacy

Автор: Gail Reekie

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Корици: С меки корици

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Why do conservative politicians and scholars in Britain, Australia and the United States continue to...

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Автор

Gail Reekie

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

1998

страници

224

EAN

9780521629744

ISBN

0521629748

Enbook ID

02038181

Издател

Cambridge University Press

Теглоt

415

Размери

152 x 228 x 20

Пълно описание

Why do conservative politicians and scholars in Britain, Australia and the United States continue to view rising rates of out-of-wedlock births and teenage pregnancies as a threat to civilised society? This book examines the process by which social science transforms a biological event - a birth - into a social and moral problem. Drawing on Foucault's 'archaeology of knowledge', Reekie stresses the role of statistics and other social-scientific discourses in the emergence of the illegitimacy 'problem' in the early nineteenth century and its continuing cultural significance. The book illustrates the continuity in concerns about illegitimacy, including pressure on the welfare system, fears of racial and intellectual denigration, the detrimental nature of fatherless families, and the association of rising illegitimacy with the supposed selfishness of excessively independent women.

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