Family Law In The Twentieth Century
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Family Law in the Twentieth Century
Author | : Stephen Michael Cretney |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 984 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0198268998 |
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The law governing family relationships has changed dramatically in the course of the 20th century and this book - drawing extensively on both published and archival material and on legal as well as other sources - gives an account of the processes and problems of reform.
Inside the Castle
Author | : Joanna L. Grossman,Lawrence M. Friedman |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2011-07-18 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781400839773 |
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A comprehensive social history of families and family law in twentieth-century America Inside the Castle is a comprehensive social history of twentieth-century family law in the United States. Joanna Grossman and Lawrence Friedman show how vast, oceanic changes in society have reshaped and reconstituted the American family. Women and children have gained rights and powers, and novel forms of family life have emerged. The family has more or less dissolved into a collection of independent individuals with their own wants, desires, and goals. Modern family law, as always, reflects the brute social and cultural facts of family life. The story of family law in the twentieth century is complex. This was the century that said goodbye to common-law marriage and breach-of-promise lawsuits. This was the century, too, of the sexual revolution and women's liberation, of gay rights and cohabitation. Marriage lost its powerful monopoly over legitimate sexual behavior. Couples who lived together without marriage now had certain rights. Gay marriage became legal in a handful of jurisdictions. By the end of the century, no state still prohibited same-sex behavior. Children in many states could legally have two mothers or two fathers. No-fault divorce became cheap and easy. And illegitimacy lost most of its social and legal stigma. These changes were not smooth or linear—all met with resistance and provoked a certain amount of backlash. Families took many forms, some of them new and different, and though buffeted by the winds of change, the family persisted as a central institution in society. Inside the Castle tells the story of that institution, exploring the ways in which law tried to penetrate and control this most mysterious realm of personal life.
American Law in the Twentieth Century
Author | : Lawrence Meir Friedman |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 1468 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300102994 |
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American law in the twentieth century describes the explosion of law over the past century into almost every aspect of American life. Since 1900 the center of legal gravity in the United States has shifted from the state to the federal government, with the creation of agencies and programs ranging from Social Security to the Securities Exchange Commission to the Food and Drug Administration. Major demographic changes have spurred legal developments in such areas as family law and immigration law. Dramatic advances in technology have placed new demands on the legal system in fields ranging from automobile regulation to intellectual property. Throughout the book, Friedman focuses on the social context of American law. He explores the extent to which transformations in the legal order have resulted from the social upheavals of the twentieth century--including two world wars, the Great Depression, the civil rights movement, and the sexual revolution. Friedman also discusses the international context of American law: what has the American legal system drawn from other countries? And in an age of global dominance, what impact has the American legal system had abroad? This engrossing book chronicles a century of revolutionary change within a legal system that has come to affect us all.
The Neutered Mother The Sexual Family and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies
Author | : Martha Albertson Fineman |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2014-04-04 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781136654831 |
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Calling for nothing less than a radical reform of family law and a reconception of intimacy, The Neutered Mother, The Sexual Family, and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies argues strongly against current legal and social policy discussions about the family because they do not have at their core the crucial concepts of caregiving and dependency, as well as the best interests of women and children. The Neutered Mother scrutinizes the definitions of family and mother throughout the volume while paying close attention to issues of race, class and sexuality. In addition, Fienman convincingly contests society's refusal to dignify, support and respond to the needs of caregivers and illustrates the burden they must bear due to this treatment. This book is a crucial step toward defining America's most pressing social policy problems having to do with women, motherhood and the family.
Governing the Hearth
Author | : Michael Grossberg |
Publsiher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2004-01-21 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780807863367 |
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Presenting a new framework for understanding the complex but vital relationship between legal history and the family, Michael Grossberg analyzes the formation of legal policies on such issues as common law marriage, adoption, and rights for illegitimate children. He shows how legal changes diminished male authority, increased women's and children's rights, and fixed more clearly the state's responsibilities in family affairs. Grossberg further illustrates why many basic principles of this distinctive and powerful new body of law--antiabortion and maternal biases in child custody--remained in effect well into the twentieth century.
Fifty Years in Family Law
Author | : Rebecca Probert,Chris Barton |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Domestic relations |
ISBN | : 178068052X |
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Stephen Cretney has long been regarded as the leading English scholar in the field of family law, as prolific as he is profound. His writing has always been a model of elegance and erudition. Even had the essays in this book not been written in his honour they would inevitably have had to rely heavily on his work.
Family Law in America
Author | : Sanford N. Katz |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780199759224 |
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This volume examines the state of family law in America. Among its themes is the tension between individual autonomy and governmental regulation in all aspects of family law. It examines both conventional and new definitions of formal and informal domestic relationships.
Women in Law and Lawmaking in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe
Author | : Professor Eva Schandevyl |
Publsiher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2014-09-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781472403483 |
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Exploring the relationship between gender and law in Europe from the nineteenth century to present, this collection examines the recent feminisation of justice, its historical beginnings and the impact of gendered constructions on jurisprudence. It looks at what influenced the breakthrough of women in the judicial world and what gender factors determine the position of women at the various levels of the legal system. Every chapter in this book addresses these issues either from the point of view of women's legal history, or from that of gendered legal cultures. With contributions from scholars with expertise in the major regions of Europe, this book demonstrates a commitment to a methodological framework that is sensitive to the intersection of gender theory, legal studies and public policy, and that is based on historical methodologies. As such the collection offers a valuable contribution both to women's history research, and the wider development of European legal history.