Family Law, Gender and the State: Text, Cases and Materials

by Felicity Kaganas and Alison Diduck

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. It examines the ideology of the family and, in particular, the role of the law in contributing to and reproducing that ideology. Structured...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184946149X
• ISBN13: 9781849461498
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 870 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.6" x 9.4"