Drawing from a wide range of material and socio-legal methods, this collection brings together original essays, written by internationally renowned scholars, investigating emerging patterns in the shape and form of the legal regulation of domestic relations. Taking as a focus the theme of 'caring and sharing', the collection includes chapters which reflect on the changing contours of what we think of as 'domestic relations'; the impact which legal recognition carries in making visible some relationships rather than others; the potential for normative values carried within patterns of legal recognition and regulation; intersections between private law and public policy; the role of private law in the allocation of responsibility and privilege; the differential impact of seemingly progressive policies on economically vulnerable or socially marginal groupings; tensions between family law models and models carried within other fields of private law; and, unusually, architectures in law and the built environment designed to facilitate broader accounts of domestic relationships. This thoughtful, provocative and wide-ranging collection will be a must for anyone, whatever their discipline background, interested in the insights and potential offered by a fresh engagement with the complexity of domestic relations and the law. Authors: Anne Barlow, Anne Bottomley, Susan Boyd and Cindy Baldassi, Alison Diduck, Susan Scott-Hunt, Nan Seuffert, Carol Smart, Simone Wong and Claire Young.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
9781841139036
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95222245
Product Key Features
Author
Simone Wong, Anne Bottomley
Publication Name
Changing Contours of Domestic Life, Family and Law: Caring and Sharing
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Law
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
236 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Onati International Series in Law and Society
Editor
Simone Wong, Anne Bottomley
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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