Synopses & Reviews
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From the very beginning reproductive rights and thereby motherhood of African-American women have been subject to interference from the outside and a matter of public debate. During the time of slavery African-American women were seen as commodities of value also and especially because of their ability to reproduce.
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The structure of the African American family has been a recurring theme in American discourse on the African American community. The role of African American mothers especially has been the cause of heated debates since the time of Reconstruction in the 19th century. The discourse, which often saw the African American family as something that needed fi xing, also put the issue of women's reproductive rights on the political agenda. Taking a long-term perspective from the 1920s to the early 1990s, Anne Overbeck aims to show how normative notions of the American family infl uenced the perspective on the African American family, especially African American women. The book follows the negotiations on African American women's reproductive rights within the context of eugenics, modernization theory, overpopulation, and the War on Drugs. Thereby it sets out to trace both continuities and changes in the discourse on the reproductive rights of African American women that still infl uence our perspective on the African American family today.
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Wie ver nderten sich Normen und Werte unter den Bedingungen intensiven sozialen Wandels in der Moderne? Die Familie bildet die ideale Sonde zur Beantwortung diese Frage, da ihr Zustand gemeinhin als Gradmesser f r das Wohlergehen der Gesellschaft gilt. Aus diesem Verst ndnis von "Familie" als "Basis der Nation" beziehen Debatten und Expertendiskurse um das dominante Familienideal und den Umgang mit Abweichungen ihre besondere Sprengkraft.
Die Studien der M nsteraner Emmy Noether-Gruppe analysieren den Wandel der Familienwerte und Geschlechternormen in der US-amerikanischen Gesellschaft des 20. Jahrhunderts aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln: ffentliche Debatten, Experteninterventionen, Umgang mit Minderheiten, Popul rkultur. Sie zeichnen ein differenziertes Bild des spannungsreichen Verh ltnisses von Norm und Lebenswirklichkeit in den modernen USA.