Inventing the Modern American Family (eBook, PDF)

Family Values and Social Change in 20th Century United States
Redaktion: Heinemann, Isabel

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Produktbeschreibung

Die USA durchliefen im 20. Jahrhundert einen enormen sozialen Wandel, im Zuge dessen auch Familienwerte und Geschlechternormen neu ausgehandelt wurden. Die Autorinnen und Autoren analysieren die damit einhergehende Veränderung von Weiblichkeits- und Männlichkeitskonzepten sowie von Mutter- und Vaterrollen. Am Beispiel von Immigration, Jugendkriminalität, Wohlfahrtspolitik, Reproduktion und Medien liefern die Beiträge ein anschauliches Bild von der Bedeutung der Familie als nationaler Kerneinheit.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Campus Verlag GmbH
• Seitenzahl: 335
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783593416915
• Artikelnr.: 37175158

Autorenporträt

Isabel Heinemann ist Juniorprofessorin für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte und Leiterin der Emmy-Noether-Nachwuchsgruppe "Familienwerte im gesellschaftlichen Wandel" an der Universität Münster.

Inhaltsangabe

ContentsIntroduction: Inventing the "Modern American Family":Family Values and Social Change in 20th Century United StatesIsabel Heinemann7Section I: Building the Nation: The American FamilyNationalist Middle-Class Women, Memory, and ConservativeFamily Values, 1890-1945Simon Wendt31"Americanization through Homemaking": Mexican AmericanMothers as a Major Factor in Americanization ProgramsClaudia Roesch59Mothering the Nation, Unmothering the Self: New Women andMaternal Narratives in the Progressive EraBarbara Antoniazzi82Section II: Social Experts and the American Family"Healthy" Men make Good Fathers: Masculine Healthand the Family in 20th Century AmericaTracy Penny Light105Social Experts and Modern Women's Reproduction: From "Working Women's Neurosis" to the Abortion Debate, 1950-1980Isabel Heinemann124Section III: Failing Parents and Problematic Youth"The Enemy Within": African American Motherhood and the"Crack Baby Crisis"Anne Overbeck155Looking for Fathers in the Postwar U.S. Foster Care SystemCatherine E. Rymph177"But recall the kind of parents we have to deal with": JuvenileDelinquency, Interdependent Masculinity and the Government ofFamilies in the Postwar U.S.Nina Mackert196Section IV: Fatherhood / Motherhood and the Media"You be a man if you can, Stan": Family Life and Fatherhood inCharles Burnett's Killer of Sheep (1977)Jürgen Martschukat223Is Mom to Blame? Anti-Communist Law Enforcement and theRepresentation of Motherhood in Early Cold War U.S. FilmOlaf Stieglitz244Family Man: The Popular Reception of Home Improvement,1991-1992, and the Debate about FatherhoodAndre Dechert265Bibliography289Contributors326Index330Contents

Introduction: Inventing the "Modern American Family":
Family Values and Social Change in 20th Century United States
Isabel Heinemann7

Section I: Building the Nation: The American Family

Nationalist Middle-Class Women, Memory, and Conservative
Family Values, 1890-1945
Simon Wendt31

"Americanization through Homemaking": Mexican American
Mothers as a Major Factor in Americanization Programs
Claudia Roesch59

Mothering the Nation, Unmothering the Self: New Women and
Maternal Narratives in the Progressive Era
Barbara Antoniazzi82

Section II: Social Experts and the American Family

"Healthy" Men make Good Fathers: Masculine Health
and the Family in 20th Century America
Tracy Penny Light105

Social Experts and Modern Women's Reproduction: From "Working Women's Neurosis" to the Abortion Debate, 1950-1980
Isabel Heinemann124

Section III: Failing Parents and Problematic Youth

"The Enemy Within": African American Motherhood and the
"Crack Baby Crisis"
Anne Overbeck155

Looking for Fathers in the Postwar U.S. Foster Care System
Catherine E. Rymph177

"But recall the kind of parents we have to deal with": Juvenile
Delinquency, Interdependent Masculinity and the Government of
Families in the Postwar U.S.
Nina Mackert196

Section IV: Fatherhood / Motherhood and the Media

"You be a man if you can, Stan": Family Life and Fatherhood in
Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep (1977)
Jürgen Martschukat223

Is Mom to Blame? Anti-Communist Law Enforcement and the
Representation of Motherhood in Early Cold War U.S. Film
Olaf Stieglitz244

Family Man: The Popular Reception of Home Improvement,
1991-1992, and the Debate about Fatherhood
Andre Dechert265

Bibliography289

Contributors326

Index330

Rezensionen

"(T)his is an impressive and highly informative collection of essays on the 20th-century U.S.-American family. The contributions offer an abundance of interesting facts and analyses of the historical development of the family and family values and show how concepts of family and nation strongly intersect.", H-Soz-u-Kult, 04.12.2012