Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : in a family way : theorizing state and familial relations / Lynne Haney and Lisa Pollard -- Familialism as state imagining. The promise of things to come : the image of the modern family in state-building, colonial occupation, and revolution in Egypt (1805-1922) / Lisa Pollard. Familiar territory : prostitution, empires and the question of U.S. imperialism in Puerto Rico, 1849-1916 / Laura Briggs. Imagining the "new Jewish family" : gender and nation in early zionism / Alison Rose -- Familialism as state building. "Rooted in the soil" : family ideals, land reclamation and irrigation resettlement as welfare in the United States, 1897-1933 / Laura Lovett. The state and the widow : pension debates in inter-war years Australia / Joy Damousi. Forging families : gender, reform, and the popular front state in Chile / Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt. Colonial Africa : transforming families for their own benefit (and ours) / Cynthia Brantley -- Familialism as state reform. Welfare reform with a familial face : reconstituting state and domestic relations in post-socialist Eastern Europe / Lynne Haney. "They say 'oh God, I don't want to live like her!'" : the marginalization of mothering in German post-socialism / Elizabeth C. Rudd. Reinstating the family : gender and the state-formed foundations of China's flexible labor force / Eileen M. Otis. Markets not states? : the weakness of state social provision for breadwinning men in the United States / Ann Shola Orloff.

All age.