Family and Gender

Author: Margrit PernauPublisher: Sage PublicationsYear: 2002Language: EnglishPages: 000ISBN/UPC (if available): 0761996184 DescriptionBoth family and gender are topics that have been discussed and debated at length. However, in recent years there has been a growing recognition that the two need to be studied together in order to understand their interdependence. This volume explores important themes relating to both gender and family and their interface.Keeping this in mind, the contributors to this volume concentrate on four major propositions: In the same way that gender cannot be culled directly from the ties of blood but involves a cultural construction.It is no longer valid to regard the family as an anthropomorphic entity which plans and acts with one voice, its god being the good of every single member of the family, but necessary to see it as a space not only of harmony, but also of power relations. This involves a consistent gendering of the family and a reading of the tradit