Changing Contours of Domestic Life, Family and Law (eBook, PDF)

Caring and Sharing
Redaktion: Bottomley, Anne; Wong, Simone

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847315366
• Artikelnr.: 52977091

Autorenporträt

Anne Bottomley and Simone Wong are Senior Lecturers in Law at the Kent Law School at the University of Kent.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Changing Contours of Domestic Life, Family and Law: Caring and
Sharing ANNE BOTTOMLEY AND SIMONE WONG 2 Making Kin: Relationality and Law
CAROL SMART Part I Property Division in Couple Relationships 3 Property and
Couple Relationships: What Does Community of Property Have to Offer English
Law? ANNE BARLOW 4 Caring and Sharing: Interdependency as a Basis for
Property Redistribution? SIMONE WONG Part II What Is Fair and to Whom? 5
Relationship Fairness ALISON DIDUCK 6 Taking Spousal Status into Account
for Tax Purposes: The Pitfalls and Penalties CLAIRE FL YOUNG Part III
Heteronormativity and Marriage Fundamentalism 7 Marriage or Naught?
Marriage and Unmarried Cohabitation in Canada SUSAN B BOYD AND CINDY L
BALDASSI 8 Same-Sex Immigration: Domestication and Homonormativity NAN
SEUFFERT Part IV Pushing at the Contours of Domestic Relationships 9 'They
shall be simple in their homes . . .': The Many Dimensions of the Idea and
Practices of Co-operative Housing ANNE BOTTOMLEY 10 Intentional Communities
and Care-giving: Co-Housing Possibilities SUSAN SCOTT HUNT