{"product_id":"the-policing-of-families-9780394737522","title":"The Policing of Families","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn The Policing of Families  Jacques Donzelot  a student and colleague of Michel Foucault  offers an account of public intervention in the regulation of family affairs since the eighteenth century  showing how this intervention effected radical changes in the structure of what had traditionally been a private domain. Treating the family as a focal point of multiple social practices and discourses  Donzelot examines the role of philanthropy  social work  compulsory mass education  and psychiatry in the control of family life and describes the transformation of mothers into agents of the state. Donzelot also provides a critique of Marxist  psychoanalytic  and feminist conceptions of the family and shows how the policies of the state and the professions molded working-class and middle-class families in quite different ways. \"An essential corrective both to the old overly optimistic interpretation and to the new pessimistic and apocalyptic vision of the recent history of the family and society in the West.\"--Lawrence Stone  New Republic\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45273259638837,"sku":"ByrdShop_0394737520","price":92.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780394737522.jpg?v=1780487638","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-policing-of-families-9780394737522","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}