header

The law of kinship

Robcis, Camille.

The law of kinship anthropology, psychoanalysis, and the family in France / [electronic resource] : Camille Robcis. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013. - xiv, 301 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The family and the republican social contract -- Kinship and the structuralist social contract -- The circulation of structuralism in the French public sphere -- The "quiet revolution" in family policy and family law -- Fatherless societies and anti-oedipal philosophies -- Alternative kinships and republican structuralism -- Epilogue : kinship, ethics, and the nation.

"Examines how French policy makers have called upon structuralist anthropology and psychoanalysis (specifically, the works of Claude L�evi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan) to reassert the centrality of sexual difference as the foundation for all social and psychic organization"--Author's Web site.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.






L�evi-Strauss, Claude--Influence.
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981 --Influence.


Family policy--France.
Sex role--Government policy--France.
Families--Philosophy.--France
Domestic relations--Philosophy.--France
Psychoanalysis and anthropology--France.


Electronic books.

HQ624 / .R63 2013eb

306.850944

© 2026 Rongo University
Contact us: librarian | system librarian | Rongo university