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FOCUSING THE FAMILY:
THE RHETORICAL CONSTRUCTION OF “FAMILY VALUES”
IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL POLITICS
by
Carrie Anne Platt
____________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(COMMUNICATION)
August 2008
Copyright 2008 Carrie Anne Platt
Object Description
| Title | Focusing the family: the rhetorical construction of "family values" in contemporary cultural politics |
| Author | Platt, Carrie Anne |
| Author email | cplatt@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Communication |
| School | Annenberg School for Communication |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-05-28 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 29 July 2010. |
| Date published | 2010-07-29 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Banet-Weiser, Sarah |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Goodnight, G. Thomas Gross, Larry Hays, Sharon |
| Abstract | This dissertation explores the evolving use of "family values" as a warrant for the enactment of social policy or censorship in contemporary debates over same-sex marriage and media decency. It argues that " family values" should be read as a multi-faceted ideograph, one that has been focused and refocused by activists in response to specific rhetorical situations, in order to highlight and/or conceal particular ideological facets. The dissertation examines three major ideological facets of "family values ": nostalgia, moral authority, and gender, analyzing how these emphases are constructed and contested by opponents of same-sex marriage, decency crusaders, LGBT rights groups, and anti-censorship activists. |
| Keyword | family values; rhetoric; cultural politics |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1445 |
| Rights | Platt, Carrie Anne |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Platt-20080729 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume23/etd-Platt-20080729.pdf |
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| Full text | FOCUSING THE FAMILY: THE RHETORICAL CONSTRUCTION OF “FAMILY VALUES” IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL POLITICS by Carrie Anne Platt ____________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMMUNICATION) August 2008 Copyright 2008 Carrie Anne Platt |
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