Teri Chettiar (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University

The Intimate State

How Emotional Life Became Political in Welfare-State Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

Featuring new archival research, The Intimate State traces the modern importance of intimate relationships alongside social reform in post-war Britain and the resultant political culture that continues to inform identity politics to this day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 162mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 606g
• ISBN-13: 9780190931209
• ISBN-10: 0190931205
• Artikelnr.: 66354224

Autorenporträt

Teri Chettiar is Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is a historian of the mind and human sciences whose work addresses the relationships between mental health, social and political reform movements, and gender and sexual identities.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction - Making Relational People: The Politics of Emotional
Life in Post-1945 Britain
* Part I: The Welfare State's Intimate Places and People
* Chapter 1 - Democracy as Therapy: Psychiatry and the Social
Environment in Interwar and Wartime Britain
* Chapter 2 - The Welfare State Begins at Home: "Deprived" Children and
Britain's Future After the War
* Chapter 3 - Problem Mothers: Maternal Neglect, Mental Illness, and
the Fragility of Female Maturity
* Chapter 4 - "More than a Contract": Marriage Welfare Services and the
Politics of Intimacy
* Part II: Sexual Revolution and Intimacy Reimagined
* Chapter 5 - Pursuing Connection: Queer Romance and Friendship During
Britain's Sexual Revolution
* Chapter 6 - Inherently Unstable: Adolescent Sexuality at the Boundary
of Private Life
* Chapter 7 - "Home Is for Many a Very Violent Place": Healing from
Family Violence in 1970s Britain
* Epilogue - Intimacy in the Age of the Individual
* Bibliography