Yenor, Scott,  1970- <br/><br/>
Family politics :  the idea of marriage in modern political thought / 
Scott Yenor. 
 - Waco, Tex. :  Baylor University Press,  c2011. 
 - xiv, 362 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-355) and index. 
<br/><br/>Nature, marital unity, and contract in modern political thought -- Pt. I. The ballast of nature and the ends of the family. Locke and the invention of the modern family -- Rousseau and the romance of family life -- Pt. II. The moving ballast of history. Hegel's modern marital unity : more than a contract, less than a sacrament -- In Hegel's shadow : French sociologists and positivist defenses of the family -- Pt. III. Liberation and the movement toward the family's end. The city and the soul mate : Mill's late liberal vision -- Marx, Engels, and the abolition of the family -- Freud, Russell, and the liberated family -- Feminism and the family -- Pt. IV. The old family and a new nature. Positivism supplemented : anatomy, evolution, and the family -- A second sailing? : recovering marital unity and the purposes of the family -- What is to be thought? : tensions and lessons. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781602583054 (hardback : alk. paper) 1602583056 (hardback : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010020207 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Marriage--History--19th century.<br/>Marriage--History--20th century.<br/>Families--History--19th century.<br/>Families--History--20th century.<br/>Political science--History--19th century.<br/>Political science--History--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ518  / .Y46 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.809