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1 online resource (236 pages) |
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Social Justice |
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Social Justice
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Table of cases; 1 Introduction: After legal equality; Part I Care and justice under neo-liberalism; 2 Making family law less sexy ... and more careful; 3 Equality: An uncomfortable fit in parenting law; 4 Men, gender and fathers' rights 'after legal equality': New formations of rights and responsibility in family justice; 5 Economic justice after legal equality: The case for caring queerly; Part II States' reach; 6 Cameos from the margins of conjugality; 7 Leaping without looking |
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8 Taxing times for lesbians and gay men: Twenty years later9 The historiographical operations of gay rights; Part III Sex and love; 10 Tackling inequality in the intimate sphere: Problematizing love and violence in same-sex relationships; 11 (Re)inscribing the heteronormative family: Same-sex relationships and parenting 'after equality'; 12 Sexuality and children post-equality; Index |
| Summary |
Groups seeking legal equality often take a victory as the end of the line. Once judgment is granted or a law is passed, coalitions disband and life goes on in a new state of equality. Policy makers too may assume that a troublesome file is now closed. This collection arises from the urgent sense that law reforms driven by equality call for fresh lines of inquiry. In unintended ways, reforms may harm their intended beneficiaries. They may also worsen the disadvantage of other groups. Committed to tackling these important issues beyond the boundaries that often confine legal scholarship, this |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Same-sex marriage -- Law and legislation.
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Gay couples -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Equality before the law.
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Homosexuality -- Law and legislation.
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Gay rights.
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Queer theory.
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LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
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Equality before the law
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Gay couples -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Gay rights
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Homosexuality -- Law and legislation
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Queer theory
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Same-sex marriage -- Law and legislation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317950493 |
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1317950496 |
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