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Author Diduck, Alison.

Title Feminist perspectives on family law / edited by Alison Diduck and Katherine O'Donovan
Published London : Routledge-Cavendish, 2006

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Description xii, 272 pages ; 24 cm
Series Feminist perspectives series
Feminist perspectives series.
Contents 1. Introduction : feminism and families plus ca change? / Alison Diduck and Katherine O'Donovan -- 2. Family friendly? : rights, responsibilities, and relationship recognition / Carl Stychin -- 3. Shared households : a new paradigm for thinking about the reform of domestic property relations / Anne Bottomley and Simone Wong -- 4. What is a parent? / Emily Jackson -- 5. Parents in law : subjective impacts and status implications around the use of licensed donor insemination / Caroline Jones -- 6. After birth : decisions about becoming a mother / Katherine O'Donovan and Jill Marshall -- 7. The ethic of justice strikes back : changing narratives of fatherhood / Carol Smart -- 8. Domestic violence, men's groups and the equivalence argument / Felicity Kaganas -- 9. Feminist perspectives on youth justice / Christine Piper -- 10. Working towards credit for parenting : a consideration of tax credits as a feminist enterprise / Ann Mumford -- 11. 'The branch on which we sit' : multiculturalism, minority women, and family law / Maleiha Malik -- 12. Feminist legal studies and the subject(s) of men : questions of text, terrain, and context in the politics of family law and gender / Richard Collier
Summary "[This book] assesses the impact that feminism has had upon family law. In addition to issues of longstanding concern for feminists, it examines issues of current legal and political concern, such as civil partnerships, home-sharing, reproductive technologies, and new initiatives in regulating the family through criminal law, including domestic violence and youth justice."--Book jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Domestic relations.
Feminist jurisprudence.
Author Diduck, Alison.
O'Donovan, Katherine.
LC no. 2006021952
ISBN 0415420369 (paperback)
1904385427 (hbk.)
9780415420365 (paperback)
9781904385424 (hbk.)