The Politics of Family: Race, Class and Gender in the 1980s

• In Event: American Political Development and Social Change

Abstract

This paper examines closely the politics and discourse around Jimmy Carter’s 1980 White House Conference on Families. It examines why when families across the nation asked for economic benefits such as family leave the focus of the conference and subsequent reports concerned only the rise of the evangelical right and pro-life politics.

Author

• Priscilla Yamin, University of Oregon