The Intimate State: How Emotional Life Became Political in Welfare-State Britain
Autor Teri Chettiaren Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 iun 2023
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780190931209
ISBN-10: 0190931205
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 244 x 162 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0190931205
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 244 x 162 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
Teri Chettiar's astute and well-crafted book tells the story of precisely how the personal became political in modern Britain. She charts the ways in which a diverse cast of players insisted on the primacy of emotional intimacy as a key component of modern wellbeing. Crucially, Chettiar shows how this ideal was adopted by queer people and others who were often excluded from the welfare state's vision of healthy citizenship. This insightful and fine-grained history explains much about contemporary attachments to the idea that states should secure our collective emotional security (as well as their persistent failures to do so).
This fascinating book revisits the history of 20th-century Britain through the lens of intimacy. As Teri Chettiar convincingly shows, the personal was literally political for British psychiatrists, therapists, and social and sexual activists who argued that better mental and emotional health would lead to more successful and well-adjusted citizens. Thoroughly researched and beautifully narrated, The Intimate State is a must-read for scholars of British history and for anyone interested in the ways in which the intimate has served as a basis to imagine and articulate politics more broadly.
We associate the phrase 'the personal is political' with second wave feminism, but this revelatory book shows how the most intimate aspects of private life were assimilated into state policy by successive postwar British governments. After 1945, when the psychological investigation of authoritarian tendencies tried to explain what had happened in Nazi Germany, family intimacy, parental care, same-sex desire, adolescent sexuality, and domestic violence all became concerns of the Keynesian welfare state. Teri Chettiar's lucid, subtle, deeply-researched analysis demonstrates the extent to which the aims and philosophies of later liberation movements were anticipated by policy objectives and social-welfare interventions based on an understanding of humans as predominantly relational beings. Twentieth-century British cultural history will never look the same again.
We tend to associate Britain's postwar welfare state with social security and universal health and education benefits. Teri Chettiar's persuasive counter-intuitive argument is that emotional well-being and care were also at its heart. But these goods were themselves associated very closely with the conventional nuclear family. So Chettiar tells us something important not only about the welfare state but also about its unravelling as that conventional family lost its sanctity and centrality.
This book by Chettiar... is an excellent addition to all university libraries.
This fascinating book revisits the history of 20th-century Britain through the lens of intimacy. As Teri Chettiar convincingly shows, the personal was literally political for British psychiatrists, therapists, and social and sexual activists who argued that better mental and emotional health would lead to more successful and well-adjusted citizens. Thoroughly researched and beautifully narrated, The Intimate State is a must-read for scholars of British history and for anyone interested in the ways in which the intimate has served as a basis to imagine and articulate politics more broadly.
We associate the phrase 'the personal is political' with second wave feminism, but this revelatory book shows how the most intimate aspects of private life were assimilated into state policy by successive postwar British governments. After 1945, when the psychological investigation of authoritarian tendencies tried to explain what had happened in Nazi Germany, family intimacy, parental care, same-sex desire, adolescent sexuality, and domestic violence all became concerns of the Keynesian welfare state. Teri Chettiar's lucid, subtle, deeply-researched analysis demonstrates the extent to which the aims and philosophies of later liberation movements were anticipated by policy objectives and social-welfare interventions based on an understanding of humans as predominantly relational beings. Twentieth-century British cultural history will never look the same again.
We tend to associate Britain's postwar welfare state with social security and universal health and education benefits. Teri Chettiar's persuasive counter-intuitive argument is that emotional well-being and care were also at its heart. But these goods were themselves associated very closely with the conventional nuclear family. So Chettiar tells us something important not only about the welfare state but also about its unravelling as that conventional family lost its sanctity and centrality.
This book by Chettiar... is an excellent addition to all university libraries.
Notă biografică
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.