Family Law, Gender and the State: Text, Cases and Materials / Alison Diduck, Felicity Kaganas

PART IFamilies and Relationships1 Law and 'The Family' 2 Personal Relationships and Legal Status 3 Dissolution of Legal Relationships: The Process and its Consequences 4 Parent-Child Relationships 5 The Family-State Relationship: Social Policy PART IIThe Principles And The LawSection 1: Equality6 Household Economics 7 Dividing the Family Assets8 Equal Status under the Children Act 1989: Parental ResponsibilitySection 2: Welfare9 The Welfare Principle 10 Disputes about Children and the Application of the Welfare Principle 11 Decisions about Children's Upbringing Section 3: The Public/Private Divide12 A Public or Private Matter? Domestic Violence 13 A Public or Private Matter? Child Abuse 14 Child Protection 15 A Public or Private Matter-Alternative Dispute Resolution and Negotiation

The third edition of this work on family law, comprising text, cases and materials, provides not only an explication of legal principle but also explores, primarily from a feminist perspective, some of the assumptions about, and constructions of, gender, sexual orientation, class and culture that underlie the law.