Changing Contours of Domestic Life, Family and Law
Caring and Sharing
- 236 pages
- English
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Changing Contours of Domestic Life, Family and Law
Caring and Sharing
About this book
Drawing from a wide range of material and socio-legal methods, this collection brings together original essays, written by internationally renowned scholars, investigating emerging patterns in the shape and form of the legal regulation of domestic relations. Taking as a focus the theme of 'caring and sharing', the collection includes chapters which reflect on the changing contours of what we think of as 'domestic relations'; the impact which legal recognition carries in making visible some relationships rather than others; the potential for normative values carried within patterns of legal recognition and regulation; intersections between private law and public policy; the role of private law in the allocation of responsibility and privilege; the differential impact of seemingly progressive policies on economically vulnerable or socially marginal groupings; tensions between family law models and models carried within other fields of private law; and, unusually, architectures in law and the built environment designed to facilitate broader accounts of domestic relationships. This thoughtful, provocative and wide-ranging collection will be a must for anyone, whatever their discipline background, interested in the insights and potential offered by a fresh engagement with the complexity of domestic relations and the law.
Authors: Anne Barlow, Anne Bottomley, Susan Boyd and Cindy Baldassi, Alison Diduck, Susan Scott-Hunt, Nan Seuffert, Carol Smart, Simone Wong and Claire Young.
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Table of contents
- Prelims
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- 1 Introduction Changing Contours of Domestic Life, Family and Law: Caring and Sharing
- 2 Making Kin: Relationality and Law
- Part I Property Division in Couple Relationships
- 3 Property and Couple Relationships: What Does Community of Property Have to Offer English Law?
- 4 Caring and Sharing: Interdependency as a Basis for Property Redistribution?
- Part II What is Fair and to Whom?
- 5 Relationship Fairness
- 6 Taking Spousal Status into Account for Tax Purposes: The Pitfalls and Penalties
- Part III Heteronormativity and Marriage Fundamentalism
- 7 Marriage or Naught? Marriage and Unmarried Cohabitation in Canada
- 8 Same-Sex Immigration: Domestication and Homonormativity
- Part IV Pushing at the Contours of Domestic Relationships
- 9 ‘They shall be simple in their homes . . .’: The Many Dimensions of the Idea and Practices of Co-operative Housing
- 10 Intentional Communities and Care-giving: Co-Housing Possibilities
- Bibliography
- Index