{"product_id":"family-values-kelly-oliver-9780415913652","title":"Family Values: Subjects Between Nature and Culture","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFamily Values\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e shows how the various contradictions at the heart of Western conceptions of maternity and paternity problematize our relationships with ourselves and with others. Using philosophical texts, psychoanalytic theory, studies in biology and popular culture, Kelly Oliver challenges our traditional concepts of maternity which are associated with nature, and our conceptions of paternity which are embedded in culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Oliver's intervention calls into question the traditional image of the oppositional relationship between nature and culture, maternal and paternal. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFamily Values\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e also undercuts recent returns to the rhetoric of a \"battle between the sexes\" by analyzing the conceptual basis of these descriptions in biological research and the presuppositions of such suggestions in philosophy and psychoanalysis. By developing a reconception of maternity and paternity, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFamily Values\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e offers hope for peace in the battle of the sexes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelly Oliver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415913659\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415913652\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/25\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.08h x 6.36w x 0.91d","brand":"Kelly Oliver","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47520270090495,"sku":"9780415913652","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b108d64d-9097-4f1e-86ad-a0ac157bef11.jpg?v=1762884580","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/family-values-kelly-oliver-9780415913652","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}