New Times: New Families

Introduction. Part One: Contextualizing Family. 1. Reconstituting Traditional Family. Introduction; Neoliberal reconstruction of 'traditional' family in Australia. 2. Apolitical Accounts of the Family. Introduction; Social Darwinism; Structural Functionalism and the nuclear family; Systems theory. 3. The Pre-1970s Politicized Family. Introduction; Patriachy and the Western nuclear family-a gift from God; Marxist approaces; Feminist theory and family. 4. Critiques from within: Post-1970s Modernist Critiques and the Nuclear Narrative. Introduction; An Ecosystemic analysis of the nuclear family; Wilden's family; Habitus and symbolic violence. Part Two: From Fordist Keynesianism to Neoliberal New Economies. 5. The Boom Years: 1945-1973. Introduction; Nation building; The keynesian social contract; Family narratives. 6. Capitalism After 1973. Introduction; After 1973; the information Society-fast, late, globalizing capitalism. Part Three: New Times: New Families. 7. Ethnicity and Race to Interethnicity. Introduction. 8. Interethnicity and Globalization. Introduction; The Australian Context; A generational Shift; Geographies of interethnicity. 9. Globalization, Family and Community.Introduction; Globalization and community; Imagined community; Glocalization; New ethnicities and old framings. 10. Symbolic Violence: The Shape(ing) of Things to Come. Introduction; The nationstate response. 11. Landscaping `Family'. Introduction; Conclusion. Reference List. Index.