The Illusion of Equality: The Rhetoric and Reality of Divorce Reform - Softcover

Fineman, Martha Albertson

 
9780226249575: The Illusion of Equality: The Rhetoric and Reality of Divorce Reform
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226249573 ISBN 13: 9780226249575
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

How do "no-fault," "gender-neutral" divorce reforms actually harm the lives of women and children they are designed to protect? Focusing on the language and symbols of reform, Martha Fineman argues that by advocating measures based on equality of treatment rather than of outcome, liberal feminists disregarded the socioeconomic factors that simultaneously place women at a disadvantage in the market and favor their taking on primary domestic responsibilities. She traces in persuasive detail the detrimental effects of equality rhetoric in shaping divorce law — such as the legal separation of parents' and children's interests; equality replacing need as the prime criterion for settlements; and the increase of state intervention into family life. More than a critique, this book is an incisive argument for adopting outcome-oriented measures and a valuable overview of the pitfalls of uncritically implementing any rhetoric as social policy.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Martha Albertson Fineman is the Maurice T. Moore Professor of Law and Director of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project at Columbia University School of Law. She is the editor of At the Boundaries of Law: Feminism and Legal Theory and the author of The Neutered Mother, the Sexual Family and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226249573
ISBN 13 
9780226249575
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
262
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