The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and the Family

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and the Family brings together philosophical analysis with contemporary scholarship across the humanities and social sciences to place an oft-taken-for-granted institution under the microscope. It examines concrete regulatory structures such as social service policies and legal realities, but also less tangible but equally powerful cultural pressures, like the roles gender, sexuality, race, citizenship, class, and health have on family life and on understandings of the family itself.

Thirty-five chapters written by an international team of leading scholars are published here for the first time, and organized into five, broader sections:

I. Family ties

II. Intimate relationships

III. Family, state and justice

VI. Parenthood and procreation

V. Sickness and death

As a true work of applied philosophy, the Handbook is an outstanding resource for students and researchers alike in introducing and furthering philosophical understandings of the family.