Neglected Stories

Neglected Stories
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 0809016079
ISBN-13 : 9780809016075
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Book Synopsis Neglected Stories by : Peggy Cooper Davis

Download or read book Neglected Stories written by Peggy Cooper Davis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-04-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a powerful challenge to the belief that the Constitution has nothing to do with the individual freedoms that comprise family rights, Peggy Cooper Davis argues in Neglected Stories that the constitutional amendments after the Civil War reflect a profound appreciation of the political, social, and personal worth of family autonomy. She draws upon what she calls the "motivating stories" of the Fourteenth Amendment to show that the Reconstruction legislators who sponsored it understood family rights as aspects of liberty that were fundamental to the proper definition of freedom and citizenship. This new understanding of family rights developed as men and women - black and white, Southerners and Northerners - came to appreciate the enormity of slavery's denial, even destruction, of family life. Davis also explores the "doctrinal stories" the Supreme Court has told to justify or strike down restrictions on liberty with respect to work, marriage, procreation, parenting, and sexuality and family planning - and the stories of the litigants who wanted to live, work, marry, love, and parent as they chose. These "neglected stories" are woven together in a strong new constitutional argument that gives us at long last a framework in which we can have sensible social and political debate about just what we mean when we say "family values."


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