Review of "Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism" by Melinda Cooper (Zone Books)

Abstract

Melinda Cooper’s interdisciplinary integration is a most welcome map of the historical and contemporary forces that created political alliances between neoliberalism and neoconservatism. This book promises to be a classic study of the role that the family played in fomenting alliances between neoconservatives and neoliberals. A wide variety of academic disciplines beyond cultural studies may find particular chapters helpful in the classroom as well.

Keywords

• family
• heterosexuality
• neoconservative
• neoliberalism
• patriarchy
• religion
• state
• united states