| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xv, 416 pages ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
A New Press "law in context" series reader ; 1 |
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New Press "law in context" series reader ; 1.
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| Contents |
1. What Is a Family? Images of Family As Haven, Family As Hell. Blood Relations / Dorothy Bryant. Royal Beatings / Alice Munro. Definitions of Family: Who's In, Who's Out, and Who Decides. The New Family / Bonnie Timmons. Personal Kindreds / Carol Stack. Danny in Transit / David Leavitt. Friends At Last / John Corry -- 2. Entering families: Fact or Law? Becoming a Parent. Choosing Parenthood. Hand-Me-Down Dreams / Carol Peacock. Pregnant on Purpose / Sharon Thompson. Adoption. A Market for Babies / J. Robert and S. Prichard. Where Do Black Children Belong?: The Politics of Race-Matching in Adoption / Elizabeth Bartholet. Comment on "Where Do Black Children Belong?" / Rita J. Simon. New Reproductive Technologies. Do New Reproductive Techniques Threaten the Family? / Martha Field. Inside the Surrogate Industry / Susan Ince. Foster Care. Why Should I Give My Baby Back? / Jane Doe. Foster Care and the Politics of Compassion / Nanette Schorr. |
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Mothering vs. Fathering. Night Pieces: For a Child / Adrienne Rich. Justice, Gender, and the Family / Susan Moller Okin. Pregnancy Leave Discriminates Against Men! / Dan Wasserman. The New Father / Letty Cottin Pogrebin. Who May Marry? An Impossible Marriage: Slave Law and Family Law / Margaret Burnham. Some Complicating Thoughts on Same-Sex Marriage / Nitya Duclos. Most Like an Arch this Marriage / John Ciardi. Cohabiting Without Marriage. Deconstructing Contract Doctrine / Clare Dalton. Into the Badlands / Robin Becker -- 3. Violence and Neglect. Violence in Families, Neglect by the State. Intimate Violence / Richard J. Gelles and Murray A. Strauss. Violence in Intimate Relationships / Bell Hooks. Social Policy and Elder Abuse / Stephen Crystal. "Words and the Door to the Land of Change": Law, Language, and Family Violence, part one / Martha Minow. |
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Medical Treatment Decisions. A Reckoning / May Sarton. As Family Protests, Hospital Seeks an End to Woman's Life Support / Lisa Belkin. Guardianship of Phillip Becker / Superior Court of Santa Clara. Pact on Custody Leads to Surgery / Robert Lindsey. Representing Lesbians / Anne B. Goldstein -- 4. Family Break-Up and Reorganization. Why Should the State Care? Epilogue: The Pursuit of Happiness / Elaine Tyler May. But Where Are The Men / Ruth Sidel. New Family Car / Pamela Painter. Consider the Consequences: Review of Lenore Weitzman's The Divorce Revolution / Martha Minow. Child Custody, Visitation, and Support. The Politics of Family Law / Fran Olsen. Cultural Perspectives on Child Welfare / Carol Stack. Child Support and Visitation: Rethinking the Connections / Karen Czpanskiy. Justifying the Continued Use of Jail / David Chambers. Family Structure, Black Unemployment and American Social Policy / Kathryn Neckerman, Robert Aponte and William Julius Wilson. |
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Access to Lawyers, Access to Court, Access to Law. Northside Secretarial Service: Charge of Unauthorized Practice / Leila Kern and Frank Sander. Lawyers and Legal Consciousness: Law Talk in the Divorce Lawyer's Office / Austin Sarat and William L.F. Felstiner. Pro Se Divorce: A Strategy for Empowering Women / Emily Joselson and Judy Kaye -- 5. Alternatives to Court, Alternatives to Law, Alternatives to Family Law. The New Mediators / Marilyn Stasie. Divorce Mediation: A Critical Overview / Kenneth Kressel. Dominant Discourse, Professional Language, and Legal Change in Child Custody Decision-Making / Martha Fineman. The Anti-Social Family / Michele Barrett and Mary MacIntosh. Love Is Not The Problem / June Jordan. |
| Subject |
Domestic relations -- United States.
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Families -- United States.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020
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Domestic relations. (OCoLC)fst00896646
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Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
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Social conditions (OCoLC)fst01919811
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Rechtssociologie.
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Familierelaties.
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Familierecht.
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| Chronological Term |
Since 1980
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| Added Author |
Minow, Martha, 1954-
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| ISBN |
1565840178 |
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9781565840171 |
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1565840429 (pbk.) |
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9781565840423 (pbk.) |
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