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Measuring Immorality
- Social Inquiry and the Problem of Illegitimacy
Engelsk Hardback
Measuring Immorality
- Social Inquiry and the Problem of Illegitimacy
Engelsk Hardback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9780521620345
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0521620341
Udg. Dato:
13 okt 1998
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
Cambridge University Press
Oplagsdato:
13 okt 1998
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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