LEADER 04256nam 22007691 450 001 9910828320003321 005 20200514202323.0 010 $a1-4725-6446-4 010 $a1-282-04844-9 010 $a9786612048449 010 $a1-84731-455-4 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472564467 035 $a(CKB)1000000000716135 035 $a(EBL)420734 035 $a(OCoLC)476252957 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000157803 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11147178 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000157803 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10144388 035 $a(PQKB)10811003 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1772439 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC420734 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1772439 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10285425 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL204844 035 $a(OCoLC)1148145374 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09256344 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL420734 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000716135 100 $a20140929d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFragmenting fatherhood $ea socio-legal study /$fRichard Collier, Sally Sheldon 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aOxford ;$aPortland, Oregon :$cHart Publishing,$d2008. 215 $a1 online resource (282 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84113-417-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 239-274). 327 $a1. Introducing Fatherhood and Law -- 2. Fatherhood and 'Natural' Reproduction -- 3. Fatherhood and Assisted Reproduction -- 4. Marital Fatherhood -- 5. Post-Separation Fatherhood -- 6. Unmarried Fatherhood -- 7. Fragmenting Fatherhood 330 8 $aDebates about the future of fatherhood have been central to a range of conversations about changing family forms, parenting and society. Law has served an important, yet often neglected, role in these discussions, serving as an important focal point for broader political frustrations, playing a central role in mediating disputes, and operating as a significant, symbolic, state-sanctioned account of the scope of paternal rights and responsibilities. Fragmenting Fatherhood provides the first sustained engagement with the way that fatherhood has been understood, constructed and regulated within English law. Drawing on a range of disparate legal provisions and material from diverse disciplines, it sketches the major contours of the figure of the father as drawn in law and social policy, tracing shifts in legal and broader understandings of what it means to be a 'father'and what rights and obligations should accrue to that status. In thematically linked chapters cutting across substantive areas of law, the book locates fatherhood as a key site of contestation within broader political debates regarding the family and gender equality. Multiple visions of fatherhood, evolving unevenly over time across diverse areas of law, emerge from this analysis. Fatherhood is revealed as an essentially fragmented status and one which is intertwined in complex ways with the legal, cultural and political contexts in which discourses of parenthood are produced. Fragmenting Fatherhood provides an important and unique resource, speaking to debates about fatherhood across a range of fields including law and legal theory, sociology, gender studies, social policy, marriage and the family, women's studies and gender studies 606 $aFamilies 606 $aFatherhood$xSocial aspects 606 $aFathers$xLegal status, laws, etc$zEngland 606 $aFathers$xLegal status, laws, etc$zWales 606 $aParent and child (Law)$zEngland 606 $aParent and child (Law)$zWales 606 $2Family law 615 0$aFamilies. 615 0$aFatherhood$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aFathers$xLegal status, laws, etc. 615 0$aFathers$xLegal status, laws, etc. 615 0$aParent and child (Law) 615 0$aParent and child (Law) 676 $a346.42017 700 $aCollier$b Richard$f1961-$01635710 702 $aSheldon$b Sally 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828320003321 996 $aFragmenting fatherhood$93976649 997 $aUNINA