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Informationen zum Autor Jürgen Nautz is Professor of Economic History at the University of Vienna and Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences. Paul Ginsborg has been Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Florence since 1992. Ton Nijhuis is the Scientific Director of the Duitsland Instituut in Amsterdam and Professor in German Studies at the University of Amsterdam. In 2009 he received the Alexander von Humboldt Forschungspreis. Klappentext The family can be viewed as one of the links in a "golden chain" connecting individuals, the private sphere, civil society, and the democratic state; as potentially an important source of energy for social activity; and as the primary institution that socializes and diffuses the values and norms that are of fundamental importance for civil society. Yet much of the literature on civil society pays very little attention to the complex relations between civil society and the family. These two spheres constitute a central element in democratic development and culture and form a counterweight to some of the most distressing aspects of modernity, such as the excessive privatization of home life and the unceasing work-and-spend routines. This volume offers historical perspectives on the role of families and their members in the processes of a liberal and democratic civil society, the question of boundaries and intersections of the private and public domains, and the interventions of state institutions. Zusammenfassung This volume concerns the role of families and their members in the processes of a liberal and democratic civil society, the question of boundaries and intersections of the private and public domains, and the interventions of state institutions. The family has the potential to be an important source of energy for civil society activity... Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Editor's Preface Dieter Gosewinkel and Jürgen Kocka Part I: Introduction and Overview Introduction Jürgen Nautz, Paul Ginsborg, and Ton Nijhuis Chapter 1. Uncharted Territories: Individuals, Families, Civil Society and the Democratic State Paul Ginsborg Part II: Feminist Historical Views Chapter 2. Gendered Boundaries. Civil Society, the Public/Private Divide and the Family Karen Hagemann Chapter 3. The Family, Civil Society, and Social Policy: a U.S. Perspective Sonya Michel Chapter 4. Feminist Mobilization and Family Change: a Case Study of a Grassroots Women's Organization in Quebec Anne Revillard Part III: Family and Society in South and Western Europe - Case Studies Chapter 5. Corporate Birthmarks of Civil Society: Kinship and Kinship Networks in Voluntary Associations, 1800-1848 Carola Lipp Chapter 6. State, Society and Family Change in 20th Century Spain: the Evolution of the 'Strong Family-Model' Elisa Chuliá Chapter 7. The Foundation of Civilized Society: Family and Social Policy in Britain and Italy between 1946 and 1960 Stefania Bernini Chapter 8. Children and Civil Society John Keane Part IV: State and changing families in Eastern Europe and the Middle East Chapter 9. The Failures of Modernity: Family, Civil Society and State in the Passage from Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic Ayse Saraçgil Chapter 10. Israel and Palestine through Family, Civil Society and State. An Overview Marcella Simoni Chapter 11. Gendered Boundaries between the State, Family and Civil Society - the Case of Poland after 1989 Elzbieta Korolcuk Chapter 12. Family Structures and Civil Society Perspectives in Present-day Serbia Dragica Vujadinovic ...
