Dorit Geva

Conscription, Family, and the Modern State

A Comparative Study of France and the United States

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Produktbeschreibung

This book compares how the American draft system and the French conscription system came to be.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781107024984
• ISBN-10: 1107024986
• Artikelnr.: 37294237

Autorenporträt

Dorit Geva is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University. She received a PhD in sociology at New York University. Geva was the Vincent Wright Fellow in Comparative Politics at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (2006-7) and spent four years as a Harper Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago (2007-11) teaching social theory in the College Core. Her work has been published in Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State, and Society; The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science; and Armed Forces and Society. She is a member of the American Sociological Association, the Council for European Studies, the American Political Science Association, ATGENDER (the European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation) and the Social Science History Association. Funding for the research in this book was provided by the Social Science Research Council's International Dissertation and Research Fellowship, a US National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant and the US Department of Education's Foreign Languages and Area Studies fellowship.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Conscription
Familial Authority
and State Modernity in Modern France: 1. Nationalized coercion
familial authority
and the père de famille in nineteenth-century France; 2. Conscription
pronatalism
and decline of familial sovereignty in the early Third Republic; 3. The famille nombreuse versus the security state in interwar France; Part II. The Draft
Familial Authority
and State Modernity in the United States: 4. Breadwinning
selective service
and the First World War draft; 5. The father draft crisis and the Second World War; 6. Conclusion: familial authority and state modernity past and present.