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Fragmenting Fatherhood : A Socio-Legal Study.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (282 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781847314550
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fragmenting FatherhoodDDC classification:
  • 346.42017
LOC classification:
  • KD772.C65 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Prelims -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introducing Fatherhood and Law -- Introduction -- I 'Fragmenting Fatherhood' -- II The Structure of the Argument -- III Contexts of Change: New Families, New Fatherhood? -- IV. Researching Fatherhood, New Questions For Law -- V. Family Law, Family Policy and Fatherhood -- VI. Law, Families, Fatherhood: Conceptual Questions -- Conclusion -- 2 Fatherhood and 'Natural' Reproduction -- Introduction -- I. Preventing Fatherhood: Contraception and Abortion -- II. Reproductive Agency, Antenatal Responsibility and Foetal Welfare -- III. Fathers, Pregnancy and Childbirth -- Conclusion -- 3 Fatherhood and Assisted Reproduction -- Introduction -- I. Child Welfare and the Need for a Father -- II. Diane Blood, Deceased Fathers and the Privileging of Widows -- III. The Status Provisions -- IV. Surrogacy -- V. Donor Insemination and Anonymity -- Conclusion -- 4 Marital Fatherhood -- Introduction -- I. (Re)Constructing the 'Family Man' as Breadwinner: From Rights to Responsibility -- II Making the 'Father Figure'?: Reconstructing Responsible Fatherhood -- III Gender Equality, Gendered Lives: The Limits of the 'New Fatherhood'? -- Concluding Remarks: Policy, Practice and the Contradictions of the New Fatherhood -- 5 Post-separation Fatherhood -- Introduction -- I A Context: The Changing Nature of Post-separation Parenting -- II A History: Divorce Law, the 'New Consensus' and the Remaking of Post-separation Fatherhood -- III Law, Contact and the 'Responsible' Post-separation Father -- IV Reassessing the Politics of Post-separation Fatherhood: Questions of Conflict, Emotion and Gender -- Conclusion -- 6 Unmarried Fatherhood -- Introduction -- I Unmarried Fatherhood and Cohabitation -- II The Law of Illegitimacy -- III Contemporary Legal Treatment of Unmarried Fathers -- Conclusion -- 7 Fragmenting Fatherhood.
Introduction -- I. Beyond the 'New Fatherhood' -- II. Fatherhood, Masculinities and the 'Problem of Men' -- III Equality, Gender Convergence and 'Geneticisation' -- IV Fatherhood and Law: Theoretical Issues -- V Conclusion: Fragmentation, Tension and Contradiction -- Bibliography.
Summary: This book provides the first sustained engagement with the way that fatherhood has been understood, constructed and regulated within English law.
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Prelims -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introducing Fatherhood and Law -- Introduction -- I 'Fragmenting Fatherhood' -- II The Structure of the Argument -- III Contexts of Change: New Families, New Fatherhood? -- IV. Researching Fatherhood, New Questions For Law -- V. Family Law, Family Policy and Fatherhood -- VI. Law, Families, Fatherhood: Conceptual Questions -- Conclusion -- 2 Fatherhood and 'Natural' Reproduction -- Introduction -- I. Preventing Fatherhood: Contraception and Abortion -- II. Reproductive Agency, Antenatal Responsibility and Foetal Welfare -- III. Fathers, Pregnancy and Childbirth -- Conclusion -- 3 Fatherhood and Assisted Reproduction -- Introduction -- I. Child Welfare and the Need for a Father -- II. Diane Blood, Deceased Fathers and the Privileging of Widows -- III. The Status Provisions -- IV. Surrogacy -- V. Donor Insemination and Anonymity -- Conclusion -- 4 Marital Fatherhood -- Introduction -- I. (Re)Constructing the 'Family Man' as Breadwinner: From Rights to Responsibility -- II Making the 'Father Figure'?: Reconstructing Responsible Fatherhood -- III Gender Equality, Gendered Lives: The Limits of the 'New Fatherhood'? -- Concluding Remarks: Policy, Practice and the Contradictions of the New Fatherhood -- 5 Post-separation Fatherhood -- Introduction -- I A Context: The Changing Nature of Post-separation Parenting -- II A History: Divorce Law, the 'New Consensus' and the Remaking of Post-separation Fatherhood -- III Law, Contact and the 'Responsible' Post-separation Father -- IV Reassessing the Politics of Post-separation Fatherhood: Questions of Conflict, Emotion and Gender -- Conclusion -- 6 Unmarried Fatherhood -- Introduction -- I Unmarried Fatherhood and Cohabitation -- II The Law of Illegitimacy -- III Contemporary Legal Treatment of Unmarried Fathers -- Conclusion -- 7 Fragmenting Fatherhood.

Introduction -- I. Beyond the 'New Fatherhood' -- II. Fatherhood, Masculinities and the 'Problem of Men' -- III Equality, Gender Convergence and 'Geneticisation' -- IV Fatherhood and Law: Theoretical Issues -- V Conclusion: Fragmentation, Tension and Contradiction -- Bibliography.

This book provides the first sustained engagement with the way that fatherhood has been understood, constructed and regulated within English law.

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