Measuring Immorality: Social Inquiry and the Problem of Illegitimacy Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Measuring Immorality: Social Inquiry and the Problem of Illegitimacy Book

This book examines how social science transforms a biological event--a birth--into a social and moral problem. Drawing on Foucault's 'archaeology of knowledge', the book stresses the role of statistics and other truth-telling discourses in the birth and growth of the illegitimacy 'problem' since the early nineteenth century. Chapters explore the diverse discursive origins of illegitimacy's negative meanings--expense, racial inferiority, social disorder, death, mental incompetence, fatherlessness and selfishness. The book offers an international perspective.Read More

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  • 0521620341
  • 9780521620345
  • Gail Reekie
  • 13 October 1998
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 224
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