LEADER 04379nam 22006491 450 001 9910450761203321 005 20200514202323.0 010 $a1-4725-6375-1 010 $a1-280-82924-9 010 $a9786610829248 010 $a1-84731-280-2 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472563750 035 $a(CKB)1000000000338360 035 $a(EBL)295189 035 $a(OCoLC)437181731 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000153723 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11160192 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000153723 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10407697 035 $a(PQKB)11584067 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1772391 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC295189 035 $a(OCoLC)1154933543 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09256341 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL295189 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000338360 100 $a20140929d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aFathers' rights activism and law reform in comparative perspective /$fedited by Richard Collier and Sally Sheldon 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aOxford ;$aPortland, OR :$cHart Publishing,$d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (190 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84113-629-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages147-166) and index. 327 $a1 Fathers' Rights, Fatherhood and Law Reform- -- International Perspectives -- Richard Collier and Sally Sheldon -- 2 'Robbed of their Families'? Fathers' Rights Discourses in -- Canadian Parenting Law Reform Processes -- Susan B Boyd -- 3 'The Outlaw Fathers Fight Back': Fathers' Rights Groups, -- Fathers 4 Justice and the Politics of Family Law -- Reform-Reflections on the UK Experience -- Richard Collier -- 4 Adopting 'Equality Tools' from the Toolboxes of their Predecessors: -- The Fathers' Rights Movement in the United States -- Jocelyn Elise Crowley -- 5 Gender Equality, Child Welfare and Fathers' Rights in Sweden -- Maria Eriksson and Keith Pringle -- 6 Yearning For Law: Fathers' Groups and Family Law -- Reform in Australia -- Helen Rhoades 330 8 $aThe legal status, responsibilities and rights of men who are fathers - married or unmarried, cohabiting or separated, biological or social in nature - is a topic with a long and well-documented history. Yet recent developments in a number of countries suggest a growing politicisation of the relationship between law and fatherhood. In some countries, an increasingly vocal, visible and well-organised fathers' rights movement has been credited with influencing perceptions of the politics of family justice. Fathers, it is argued, have become the new victims of family law justice systems that have swung 'too far' in favour of mothers. Armed with such claims, fathers' rights activists have set out to achieve a range of legal reforms, most notably in the areas of child support law and contact and residence rights following separation. This book presents an attempt to understand these developments. Bringing together leading international commentators it provides a careful, critical and comparative analysis of the work of fathers' rights activists, the role law has played in their campaigning, their legal strategies, their success (or otherwise) in achieving legal reform, similarities and divergences with the women's movement, and the relationship between fathers' rights movements and the societies that frame them. In addition to Collier and Sheldon, contributors include: Susan B Boyd (University of British Columbia, Canada), Jocelyn Crowley (Rutgers University, USA), Maria Eriksson (Goteborg University, Sweden), Keith Pringle (Aalborg University, Denmark), Helen Rhoades (Melbourne University, Australia), and Carol Smart (Manchester University, UK) 606 $aFathers$xLegal status, laws, etc 606 $aParent and child (Law) 606 $2Family law 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFathers$xLegal status, laws, etc. 615 0$aParent and child (Law) 676 $a346.017 702 $aCollier$b Richard$f1961- 702 $aSheldon$b Sally 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450761203321 996 $aFathers' rights activism and law reform in comparative perspective$92459359 997 $aUNINA