Classification comes home to the family -- Family and the domestication of passions -- Family, the manners of the people, and political economy -- Harriet Martineau's "embodied principles" of political economy : whose bodies, what principles? -- What is to be deemed a family? -- What is to be deemed a family? -- However you define family
Summary
Brian Cooper explores the role of economic theory in 'normalizing' the family in the first half of the nineteenth century. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the book examines the impacts of these different forms on contemporary debate
