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OverviewBy 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 editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sylvia SchaferPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.510kg ISBN: 9780691633718ISBN 10: 0691633711 Pages: 250 Publication Date: 19 April 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations Used in NotesIntroduction3Pt. IPaternal Authority, Parental Obligation, and the State: Legislating Protection in the Late Nineteenth Century19Pt. IIThe Machinery of Justice: The Investigation and Prosecution of Abandon Moral87Pt. IIIPetits Parisiens into Peasants: The Guardian State and the Child in Moral Danger141Conclusion201Select Bibliography209Index227Reviews""This slim volume takes a postmodern approach to the French concept of children in moral danger as introduced in the 1889 law on the divestiture of paternal authority and as interpreted by administrators and jurists up to the creation of a new juvenile court in 1912.""--Journal of Modern History """This slim volume takes a postmodern approach to the French concept of children in moral danger as introduced in the 1889 law on the divestiture of paternal authority and as interpreted by administrators and jurists up to the creation of a new juvenile court in 1912.""--Journal of Modern History" This slim volume takes a postmodern approach to the French concept of children in moral danger as introduced in the 1889 law on the divestiture of paternal authority and as interpreted by administrators and jurists up to the creation of a new juvenile court in 1912. --Journal of Modern History Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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