Feminist Perspectives on Family Law

Feminist Perspectives on Family Law
Author: Alison Diduck
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2007-03-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1135309620

Examining specific areas of family law from a feminist perspective, this book assesses the impact that feminism has had upon family law. It is deliberately broad in scope, as it takes the view that family law cannot be defined in a traditional way. In addition to issues of long-standing concern for feminists, it explores issues of current legal and political preoccupation such as civil partnerships, home-sharing, reproductive technologies and new initiatives in regulating family practices through criminal law, including domestic violence and youth justice.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law
Author: Tracy A. Thomas
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2016-11-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 147987681X

Thomas Byers Memorial Outstanding Publication Award from the University of Akron Law Alumni Association Much has been written about women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Historians have written her biography, detailed her campaign for woman’s suffrage, documented her partnership with Susan B. Anthony, and compiled all of her extensive writings and papers. Stanton herself was a prolific author; her autobiography, History of Woman Suffrage, and Woman’s Bible are classics. Despite this body of work, scholars and feminists continue to find new and insightful ways to re-examine Stanton and her impact on women’s rights and history. Law scholar Tracy A. Thomas extends this discussion of Stanton’s impact on modern-day feminism by analyzing her intellectual contributions to—and personal experiences with—family law. Stanton’s work on family issues has been overshadowed by her work (especially with Susan B. Anthony) on woman’s suffrage. But throughout her fifty-year career, Stanton emphasized reform of the private sphere of the family as central to achieving women’s equality. By weaving together law, feminist theory, and history, Thomas explores Stanton’s little-examined philosophies on and proposals for women’s equality in marriage, divorce, and family, and reveals that the campaigns for equal gender roles in the family that came to the fore in the 1960s and ’70s had nineteenth-century roots. Using feminist legal theory as a lens to interpret Stanton’s political, legal, and personal work on the family, Thomas argues that Stanton’s positions on divorce, working mothers, domestic violence, childcare, and many other topics were strikingly progressive for her time, providing significant parallels from which to gauge the social and legal policy issues confronting women in marriage and the family today.

Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten

Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten
Author: Rachel Rebouché
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2020-06-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108471706

Reimagined court opinions that address iconic issues in family law from a feminist perspective with timely commentaries on those issues.

Feminist Perspectives on Land Law

Feminist Perspectives on Land Law
Author: Hilary Lim
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2007-04-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1135335036

The first book to examine the critical area of land law from a feminist perspective, it provides an original and critical analysis of the gendered intersection between law and land; ranging land use and ownership in England and Wales to Botswana, Papua New Guinea and the Muslim world. The authors draw upon the diverse disciplinary fields of law, anthropology and geography to open up perspectives that go beyond the usually narrow topography and cartography of land law. Addressing an unorthodox variety of sites where questions of women's access and rights to land are raised, this book includes chapters on: shopping malls ancient monuments nature reserves housing estates the family home. An interdisciplinary and enlivening account of feminist perspectives on land law, it is an excellent addition to the bookshelves of students and researchers in legal studies, gender studies, social anthropology and social geography.

Handbook of Feminist Family Studies

Handbook of Feminist Family Studies
Author: Sally A. Lloyd
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2009-04-14
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1412960827

The Handbook of Feminist Family Studies presents the important theories, methodologies, and practices in feminist family studies. The editors showcase feminist family scholarship, providing both a retrospective and a prospective overview of the field and creating a scholarly forum for interpretation and dissemination of feminist work.

Feminist Perspectives on Contract Law

Feminist Perspectives on Contract Law
Author: Linda Mulcahy
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2005
Genre: Contracts
ISBN: 1859417426

This edited collection questions the assumptions about feminist perspectives on contract law made in mainstream textbooks and the ideologies that underpin them, drawing attention to the ways in which the law of contract has facilitated the virtual exclusion of women, the feminine and the private sphere from legal discourse.

Feminist Constitutionalism

Feminist Constitutionalism
Author: Beverley Baines
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2012-04-16
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0521761573

Explores the relationship between constitutional law and feminism, offering a spectrum of approaches and analysis set across a wide range of topics.

Feminist Legal Theory

Feminist Legal Theory
Author: Nancy E. Dowd
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2003
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0814719120

Feminist Legal Theory is a groundbreaking collection of feminist work proceeding from the core assumption that the differences among women are essential to feminist analysis. Rather than presenting feminist legal theory sequentially, with “African American feminism” or “critical race feminism” added on at the end, the volume thoroughly integrates key readings from non-white, non-middle class, and non-mainstream writers throughout. The volume explores the intersections of race, class, and gender in such areas as theory, family, work and economic issues, and violence against women. Each section of the book begins with an introduction providing context and insights into how the particular pieces included challenge norms and create new paradigms. This vibrant, challenging collection of work by a broad range of authors represents the cutting edge of feminist theory in concrete applications essential to gender equality. Contributors include: Patricia Hill Collins, Bonnie Thornton Dill, Angela P. Harris, Sylvia A. Law, Mari Matsuda, Martha Minow, Esther Ngan-Ling Chow, john a. powell, Jenny Rivera, and Maxine Baca Zinn.

Feminist Perspectives on Wife Abuse

Feminist Perspectives on Wife Abuse
Author: Kersti Yllo
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1988-04
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

The articles in this collection discuss recent research on violence against women. They are premised on the notion that gender inequality is the source of such violence, and that the social institutions of marriage and family are special contexts that may promote, maintain, and even support men's use of physical force against women.

Gender, Violence, and Human Security

Gender, Violence, and Human Security
Author: Aili Mari Tripp
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2013-11-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0814764908

The nature of human security is changing globally: interstate conflict and even intrastate conflict may be diminishing worldwide, yet threats to individuals and communities persist. Large-scale violence by formal and informal armed forces intersects with interpersonal and domestic forms of violence in mutually reinforcing ways. Gender, Violence, and Human Security takes a critical look at notions of human security and violence through a feminist lens, drawing on both theoretical perspectives and empirical examinations through case studies from a variety of contexts around the globe. This fascinating volume goes beyond existing feminist international relations engagements with security studies to identify not only limitations of the human security approach, but also possible synergies between feminist and human security approaches. Noted scholars Aili Mari Tripp, Myra Marx Ferree, and Christina Ewig, along with their distinguished group of contributors, analyze specific case studies from around the globe, ranging from post-conflict security in Croatia to the relationship between state policy and gender-based crime in the United States. Shifting the focus of the term “human security” from its defensive emphasis to a more proactive notion of peace, the book ultimately calls for addressing the structural issues that give rise to violence. A hard-hitting critique of the ways in which global inequalities are often overlooked by human security theorists, Gender, Violence, and Human Security presents a much-needed intervention into the study of power relations throughout the world.