Rights, gender, and family law / edited by Julie Wallbank, Shazia Choudhry and Jonathan Herring.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wallbank, Julie A.

Choudhry, Shazia.

Herring, Jonathan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Domestic relations--English-speaking countries.

Domestic relations.

Marriage law--English-speaking countries.

Marriage law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There has been a widespread resurgence of rights talk in social and legal discourses pertaining to the regulation of family life, as well as an increase in the use of rights in family law cases, in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia. Rights, Gender and Family Law addresses the implications of these developments - and, in particular, the impact of rights-based approaches upon the idea of welfare and its practical application. There are now many areas of family law in which rights and welfare based approaches have been forced together. But whilst, to many, they are premised upon di

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; The contributors; Chapter 1 Welfare, rights, care and gender in family law; Chapter 2 Gender, rights, responsibilities and social policy; Chapter 3 Child protection, gender and rights; Chapter 4 Rights and responsibility: Girls and boys who behave badly; Chapter 5 (En)Gendering the fusion of rights and responsibilities in the law of contact; Chapter 6 Fatherhood, law and fathers' rights: Rethinking the relationship between gender and welfare

Chapter 7 Mandatory prosecution and arrest as a form of compliance with due diligence duties in domestic violence - the gender implicationsChapter 8 The limitations of equality discourses on the contours of intimate obligations; Chapter 9 Public norms and private lives: Rights, fairness and family law; Chapter 10 The identi.cation of 'parents' and 'siblings': New possibilities under the reformed Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act; Chapter 11 Children with exceptional needs: Welfare, rights and caring responsibilities; Chapter 12 Relational autonomy and family law

Chapter 13 Concluding thoughts: The enduring chaos of family lawIndex

Notes:

"A Glasshouse book."

ISBN:

1-135-26202-0

1-135-26203-9

1-282-44331-3

9786612443312

0-203-86947-8

9780203869475

OCLC:

506520356