Family Law Matters
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pluto Press
Published:20th Mar '93
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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