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By exploring how children and their families became unprecedented objects of governmental policy in the early decades of France's Third Republic, Sylvia Schafer offers a fresh perspective on the self-fashioning of a new governmental order. In the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War, social ref...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. : |
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[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton studies in culture/power/history
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By exploring how children and their families became unprecedented objects of governmental policy in the early decades of France's Third Republic, Sylvia Schafer offers a fresh perspective on the self-fashioning of a new governmental order. In the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War, social reformers claimed that children were increasingly the victims of their parents' immorality. Schafer examines how government officials codified these claims in the period between 1871 and 1914 and made the moral status of the family the focus of new kinds of legislative, juridical, and administrative action. Although the debate on moral danger in the family helped to articulate the young republic's claim to moral authority in the metaphors of parenthood, the definition of "moral endangerment" remained ambiguous. Schafer shows how public authorities reshaped their agenda and varied their remedies as their schemes for protecting morally endangered children broke down under the enduring weight of this ambiguity.Drawing on insights from feminist theory, literary studies, and the work of Michel Foucault, Schafer reveals the cultural complexity of civil justice and social administration in both their formal and everyday incarnations. In demonstrating the centrality of ambivalence as a condition of liberal government and governmental representations, she fundamentally recasts the history of the early Third Republic and, more widely, issues a powerful challenge to conventional views of the modern state and its history.Originally published in 1997.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of b |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(250pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9781400872992 |
| Index Number: | HV761 |
| CLC: | D756.581 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Introduction -- 1. The Long History of Paternal Power -- 2. Protection, the State, and the Laws of 1874 -- 3. The Divestiture of Paternal Authority and the Law of 1889 -- 4. Setting The Wheels In Motion -- 5. Investigation -- 6. Judgment -- 7. Defining A Population, Defining An Administration -- 8. Experiments in Placement, 1881-1889 -- 9. The Assimilation of the Enfants Moralement Abandonnes -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index. |