Family Values: Subjects Between Nature and Culture

by Kelly Oliver

Book Overview

Family Values shows how the various contradictions at the heart of Western conceptions of maternity and paternity problematize our relationships with ourselves and with others. Using philosophical texts, psychoanalytic theory, studies in biology and popular culture, Kelly Oliver challenges our traditional concepts of maternity which are associated with nature, and our conceptions of paternity which are embedded in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415913667
• ISBN13: 9780415913669
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"