Fathers' Rights Activism and Law Reform in Comparative Perspective [Paperback]

Sally Sheldon (Editor), Richard Collier (Editor)

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Paperback: 182 pages
Publisher: Hart Publishing (Oct 10 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1841136298
ISBN-13: 978-1841136295
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1 cm
Shipping Weight: 299 g
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The high quality of each contribution should establish the book as an important resource, informing the further development of this topic.Tony HobbsFeminist Legal StudiesVol 16this book provides a careful, critical and comparative analysis of the work of fathers' rights activistsEducation, Public Law and the IndividualVol 11, Issue 1, Spring 2007...a carefully documented and rich amalgam of ideas, arguments and propositions concerning the contemporary phenomenon of fathers' rights activismThe editors suggest the volume might serve in the development of an agenda that promotes a more nuanced and rounded politics of equality than that advocated by fathers' rights organizations. It certainly makes a major contribution to that agenda. It gives us a coherent and incisive critique that represents an important marker of a defining moment in the history of family law reform strategies.Fiona RaittSocial & Legal Studies18 (2)

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The legal status, responsibilities and rights of men who are fathers - married or unmarried, cohabiting or separated, biological or social in nature - is a topic with a long and well-documented history. Yet recent developments in a number of countries suggest a growing politicisation of the relationship between law and fatherhood. In some countries, an increasingly vocal, visible and well-organised fathers' rights movement has been credited with influencing perceptions of the politics of family justice. Fathers, it is argued, have become the new victims of family law justice systems that have swung 'too far' in favour of mothers. Armed with such claims, fathers' rights activists have set out to achieve a range of legal reforms, most notably in the areas of child support law and contact and residence rights following separation. This book presents an attempt to understand these developments. Bringing together leading international commentators it provides a careful, critical and comparative analysis of the work of fathers' rights activists, the role law has played in their campaigning, their legal strategies, their success (or otherwise) in achieving legal reform, similarities and divergences with the women's movement, and the relationship between fathers' rights movements and the societies that frame them.In addition to Collier and Sheldon, contributors include: Susan B Boyd (University of British Columbia, Canada), Jocelyn Crowley (Rutgers University, USA), Maria Eriksson (Goteborg University, Sweden), Keith Pringle (Aalborg University, Denmark), Helen Rhoades (Melbourne University, Australia), and Carol Smart (Manchester University, UK).

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