The neutered mother, the sexual family, and other twentieth century tragedies / Martha Albertson Fineman.
1995
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Title
The neutered mother, the sexual family, and other twentieth century tragedies / Martha Albertson Fineman.
Published
New York : Routledge, 1995.
Call Number
K670 .F56 1995
ISBN
0415910269 (acid-free paper)
9780415910262 (acid-free paper)
0415910277 (acid-free paper)
9780415910279 (acid-free paper)
9780415910262 (acid-free paper)
0415910277 (acid-free paper)
9780415910279 (acid-free paper)
Description
ix, 239 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)30914342
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgement
1
Introduction
1
IThree Vignettes
1
IIFamily As Usual
6
2
Law, Ideology, and the Perspective of Feminist Legal Theory - Limitations on Imaginations
14
IThe Limits of Law
15
IIThe Role of Ideology
20
IIIFeminist Legal Theory
24
3
Differences in Context - Feminist Legal Theory and Gendered Lives
34
IThe Evolution of Difference in Feminist Legal Thought
36
IIShared Position - The Concept of A Gendered Life
47
4
The Neutered Mother
70
IMother As Symbol
71
IIThe Construction of Mother in Law
75
5
The Deviant Mother
101
IThe Construction of Maternal Deviancy in Poverty Discourses
106
IIThe Construction of Maternal Deviancy in the Context of Divorce
118
IIIAbusive Mothers
122
6
The Sexual Family
145
IStructuring Intimacy
145
IIThe Sexual or Natural Family as Sacred
150
IIIThe Undeveloped Dependency Discourse
161
7
The Limits of Privacy - The Public Family
177
IThe Discourse of Intervention
177
IIPrivacy and Single Mothers
180
8
Other Tragedies
201
IThe Discourse of Fathers' Rights
201
IIDifferentiating Fathers
208
IIISingle Mothers and the "Costs" of Responsibility
213
IVThe Further Separation of Mother from Child
217
9
Re-Visioning
226
IRe-Visioning Family Law
227
Index
237