Family matters : readings on family lives and the law / edited by Martha Minow.
1993
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Title
Family matters : readings on family lives and the law / edited by Martha Minow.
Published
New York : New Press, [1993]
Distributed
New York : Distributed by W.W. Norton
Copyright
©1993
Call Number
KF505.Z9 F34 1993
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
1565840178 :
1565840429 (pbk.) :
1565840429 (pbk.) :
Description
xv, 416 pages ; 26 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)27216429
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1
What Is a Family?
Images of Family As Haven, Family As Hell
Blood Relations / Dorothy Bryant
2
Royal Beatings / Alice Munro
5
Definitions of Family: Who's In, Who's Out, and Who Decides
The New Family / Bonnie Timmons
22
Personal Kindreds / Carol Stack
23
Danny in Transit / David Leavitt
31
Friends At Last / John Corry
42
2
Entering families: Fact or Law?
Becoming a Parent
Choosing Parenthood
Hand-Me-Down Dreams / Carol Peacock
46
Pregnant on Purpose / Sharon Thompson
47
Adoption
A Market for Babies / J. Robert S. Prichard
56
Where Do Black Children Belong?: The Politics of Race-Matching in Adoption / Elizabeth Bartholet
66
Comment on "Where Do Black Children Belong?" / Rita J. Simon
94
New Reproductive Technologies
Do New Reproductive Techniques Threaten the Family? / Martha Field
96
Inside the Surrogate Industry / Susan Ince
104
Foster Care
Why Should I Give My Baby Back? / Jane Doe
115
Foster Care and the Politics of Compassion / Nanette Schorr
117
Mothering vs. Fathering
Night Pieces: For a Child / Adrienne Rich
125
Justice, Gender, and the Family / Susan Moller Okin
125
Pregnancy Leave Discriminates Against Men! / Dan Wasserman
129
The New Father / Letty Cottin Pogrebin
130
Who May Marry?
An Impossible Marriage: Slave Law and Family Law / Margaret Burnham
142
Some Complicating Thoughts on Same-Sex Marriage / Nitya Duclos
157
Most Like an Arch this Marriage / John Ciardi
169
Cohabiting Without Marriage
Deconstructing Contract Doctrine / Clare Dalton
170
Into the Badlands / Robin Becker
178
3
Violence and Neglect
Violence in Families, Neglect by the State
Intimate Violence / Richard J. Gelles Murray A. Strauss
188
Violence in Intimate Relationships / Bell Hooks
200
Social Policy and Elder Abuse / Stephen Crystal
206
"Words and the Door to the Land of Change": Law, Language, and Family Violence, part one / Martha Minow
209
Neglect by Families, Violence by the State
I Stand Here Ironing / Tillie Olsen
216
Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged / Christopher Lasch
221
No Name Maddox, Case History of Charles Manson / Kenneth Wooden
223
Race, Gender and Violence Against Women / Kimberle Crenshaw
230
Making an Issue of Child Abuse / Barbara Nelson
232
Responding to Violence and Neglect
For Shelter and Beyond Massachusetts Coalition of Battered Women Services Groups
246
Welcome and Rules Waltham Battered Women Support Committee
257
Women's Experience and the Problem of Transition / Christine Littleton
261
"Words and the Door to the Land of Change": Law, Language, and Family Violence, part two / Martha Minow
272
Debates Over "State Intervention"
The Myth of State Intervention in the Family / Frances Olsen
277
Medical Treatment Decisions
A Reckoning / May Sarton
283
As Family Protests, Hospital Seeks an End to Woman's Life Support / Lisa Belkin
285
Guardianship of Phillip Becker Superior Court of Santa Clara
288
Pact on Custody Leads to Surgery / Robert Lindsey
299
Representing Lesbians / Anne B. Goldstein
301
4
Family Break-Up and Reorganization
Why Should the State Care?
Epilogue: The Pursuit of Happiness / Elaine Tyler May
309
But Where Are The Men / Ruth Sidel
314
New Family Car / Pamela Painter
324
Consider the Consequences: Review of Lenore Weitzman's The Divorce Revolution / Martha Minow
329
Child Custody, Visitation, and Support
The Politics of Family Law / Fran Olsen
336
Cultural Perspectives on Child Welfare / Carol Stack
344
Child Support and Visitation: Rethinking the Connections / Karen Czpanskiy
349
Justifying the Continued Use of Jail / David Chambers
353
Family Structure, Black Unemployment and American Social Policy / Kathryn Neckerman Robert Aponte William Julius Wilson
361
Access to Lawyers, Access to Court, Access to Law
Northside Secretarial Service: Charge of Unauthorized Practice / Leila Kern Frank Sander
365
Lawyers and Legal Consciousness: Law Talk in the Divorce Lawyer's Office / Austin Sarat William L. F. Felstiner
373
Pro Se Divorce: A Strategy for Empowering Women / Emily Joselson Judy Kaye
377
5
Alternatives to Court, Alternatives to Law, Alternatives to Family Law
The New Mediators / Marilyn Stasie
382
Divorce Mediation: A Critical Overview / Kenneth Kressel
384
Dominant Discourse, Professional Language, and Legal Change in Child Custody Decision-Making / Martha Fineman
387
The Anti-Social Family / Michele Barrett Mary MacIntosh
397
Love Is Not The Problem / June Jordan
412