Rights, gender, and family law / / edited by Julie Wallbank, Shazia Choudhry, and Jonathan Herring

• Pubblicazione: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (301 p.)
• Disciplina: 346.015
• Soggetto topico: Domestic relations - English-speaking countries; Marriage law - English-speaking countries
• Altri autori: ChoudhryShazia HerringJonathan WallbankJulie A
• Note generali: "A Glasshouse book."
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; The contributors; Chapter 1 Welfare, rights, care and gender in family law; Chapter 2 Gender, rights, responsibilities and social policy; Chapter 3 Child protection, gender and rights; Chapter 4 Rights and responsibility: Girls and boys who behave badly; Chapter 5 (En)Gendering the fusion of rights and responsibilities in the law of contact; Chapter 6 Fatherhood, law and fathers' rights: Rethinking the relationship between gender and welfare ; Chapter 7 Mandatory prosecution and arrest as a form of compliance with due diligence duties in domestic violence - the gender implicationsChapter 8 The limitations of equality discourses on the contours of intimate obligations; Chapter 9 Public norms and private lives: Rights, fairness and family law; Chapter 10 The identi.cation of 'parents' and 'siblings': New possibilities under the reformed Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act; Chapter 11 Children with exceptional needs: Welfare, rights and caring responsibilities; Chapter 12 Relational autonomy and family law ; Chapter 13 Concluding thoughts: The enduring chaos of family lawIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: There has been a widespread resurgence of rights talk in social and legal discourses pertaining to the regulation of family life, as well as an increase in the use of rights in family law cases, in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia. Rights, Gender and Family Law addresses the implications of these developments - and, in particular, the impact of rights-based approaches upon the idea of welfare and its practical application. There are now many areas of family law in which rights and welfare based approaches have been forced together. But whilst, to many, they are premised upon di
• Titolo autorizzato: Rights, gender, and family law
• ISBN: 1-135-26202-0; 1-135-26203-9; 1-282-44331-3; 9786612443312; 0-203-86947-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780933803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II