The nuclear family, ideology and AIDS in the thatcher years

Thomas, Philip

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“…In establishing this norm, other familiar relations outside this became stigmatized, affecting primarily single mothers and homosexuals (Thomas, 1993;Collier, 1995;Cooper and Herman, 1995). In this scenario a range of social and moral ills of British society were reduced due to the degeneration of the family.…”

Section: Legislating the Family In Denmark And The United Kingdommentioning

confidence: 95%

“…The welfare state, the New Right argued, was a bureaucratic power-bloc, standing in the way of the freedom and individual needs of the citizen. Thus, the ethos of 'rolling back the State' meant that a new mode of governance and new regulatory frameworks emerged (see Thomas, 1993;Hunt andPurvis, 1999 andWhite andHarris, 1999) which influenced the mode of legal regulation -where responsibilities were shifted from central government to statutory bodiesand policy-making and administration. 11 This new mode of governance opened the possibility of a variety of interpretations of legislation, as in the case of the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (Cooper, 1995: 86).…”

Section: Legislating the Family In Denmark And The United Kingdommentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘We are Family’: The Regulation of ‘Female-Only’ Reproduction

Lttichau¹

2004

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In this article I seek to examine the ways in which gay and lesbian struggles are shaped by their political and national context. I have analyzed the public debate concerning assisted insemination in relation to same-sex parenting and single mothers in Denmark as it took place during the years 1997-2002, and, as such, this article offers a reading of sexual politics in a country which is often portrayed as one of the most liberal ones when it comes to gay and lesbian rights. I further show the way in which the rights agenda can prove problematic and limited, in relation to issues of family and parenting. Thus I point to the inherent problems of a universalized conception of gay and lesbian struggles and find it pertinent to consider how organizing frameworks such as gender, sexuality and nationality determine the site of resistance and the articulation of what can be deemed political.

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Section: Legislating the Family In Denmark And The United Kingdommentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Legislating the Family In Denmark And The United Kingdommentioning

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‘We are Family’: The Regulation of ‘Female-Only’ Reproduction

Lttichau¹

2004

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“…Children were deployed in the discourses of the New Right as both an emotive talisman and cornerstone of the nuclear family (Elizabeth, 2016, 2012). For the Conservative party under Margaret Thatcher, an idealised nuclear family, with children at its heart, provided both a structuring metaphor and target for New Right policies, argued for with reference to the recurring and adaptable mantra: ‘What is right for the family is right for Britain’ (Thomas, 1993). Using the ‘privatised family’ as a bracketing device, the Conservative party were able to break with the post-war consensus and intimate that Welfareism was intrusive and infantilising, and thus an institution at odds with an imagined idealised ‘stable, self-reliant, moral, nuclear family’ (Nunn, 2001, pp.…”

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Superman vs. Nick O’Teen: anti-smoking campaigns and children in 1980s Britain

Mold

Elizabeth

2019

Palgrave Commun

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In December 1980, the Health Education Council launched a campaign designed to discourage children from taking up smoking. Advertisements on TV and in comics and magazines featured a battle between Superman and the evil Nick O’Teen as he attempted to recruit children to his army of smokers. Children were also encouraged to join Superman in his fight by signing a pledge not to smoke, in return for which they received a poster and badges featuring the superhero. This article examines the design, production, delivery and reception of the Superman vs. Nick O’Teen campaign in order to probe the multi-faceted nature of the making of healthy publics in 1980s Britain. Children constituted a particularly problematic public. On the one hand, they were thought to be vulnerable and easily led towards unhealthy lifestyle choices. But on the other, children were also recognised as agents who might convince adults, as well as their peers not to smoke. This ambivalent conceptualisation of the child as a potential victim of malign influences, or potential rational agent and force for good, is typical of the 1980s, a time when the meanings of the child as consumer, agent, and citizen were undergoing increased ideological debate. This campaign also took place as ideas about health education, its place within public health policy and practice, and its relationship with the public, were in flux. The battle between Superman and Nick O’Teen was thus not just about smoking, but about particular ways of seeing and interacting with healthy (and unhealthy) publics.

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“…It has been noted that the HIV/AIDS epidemic has provided a basis for government in the United Kingdom and in the United States to regulate discourse relating to sexuality and families in a way that directly attacks the lesbian and gay communities (Thomas, 1993;Stychin, 1995: 11-37, 49-53). These developments did not augur well for legal reform in Ireland in the mid-1980s when more information (and disinformation) about HIV/AIDS began to circulate.…”

Section: Hiv/aids and Strategies Of Legal Reformmentioning

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'Cherishing All Her Children Equally': the Law and Politics of Irish Lesbian and Gay Citizenship

Flynn

1997

Social & Legal Studies

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Centre for European Law, King's College, London LESBIANS AND GAY MEN present a challenge to Ireland's traditional t social ordering as a result of their distance from that order and their simultaneous proximity to it. Both the supposed difference of lesbians and gay men and the way that their mere presence disputes the inevitability of that existing social system generate major tensions within the imagined homogeneity of Irish society. However, lesbians and gay men are not alien to that society. They are born into families in Ireland, brought up in Irish communities, educated in Irish schools and are apparently as Irish as those around them. This familiarity amplifies the problems that the existence of lesbians and gay men implicitly produce for a homophobic social structure that values conformity. However, recently there has been a wave of legal and social reforms in Ireland relating to sexual orientation. In less than a decade the Irish legal

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The nuclear family, ideology and AIDS in the thatcher years

Cited by 10 publications

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‘We are Family’: The Regulation of ‘Female-Only’ Reproduction

‘We are Family’: The Regulation of ‘Female-Only’ Reproduction

Superman vs. Nick O’Teen: anti-smoking campaigns and children in 1980s Britain

'Cherishing All Her Children Equally': the Law and Politics of Irish Lesbian and Gay Citizenship

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