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The law of kinship [electronic resource]

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"Examines how French policy makers have called upon structuralist anthropology and psychoanalysis (specifically, the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan) to reassert the centrality of sexual difference as the foundation for all social and psychic organization"--Author's Web site.

Title The law of kinship [electronic resource] : anthropology, psychoanalysis, and the family in France / Camille Robcis.
Publisher Ithaca : Cornell University Press
Creation Date 2013
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Issued also in print.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content The family and the republican social contract -- Kinship and the structuralist social contract -- The circulation of structuralism in the French public sphere -- The "quiet revolution" in family policy and family law -- Fatherless societies and anti-oedipal philosophies -- Alternative kinships and republican structuralism -- Epilogue : kinship, ethics, and the nation.
Extent 1 online resource (318 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010710403205171
MARC RECORDS
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