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Family Law Matters

Katherine O'Donovan author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pluto Press

Published:20th Mar '93

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In this radical critique, Professor O'Donovan challenges conventional textbooks which assume that marriage is the essential feature of family life and that the patriarchal unit remains dominant.

She shows how the key players in family law discourse - women and children - are largely excluded and argues that it is the birth of children, rather than marriage, which is the constitutive element of the family.

'Invaluable as a compendium of ideas, and as a starting point, for the longer term project of theorising family law' -- John Dewar, Hertford College, Oxford University

ISBN: 9780745305073

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 212g

192 pages