Challenging the Public/Private Divide : Feminism, Law, and Public Policy.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Challenging the Public/Private Divide: An Overview -- PART 1 THE ROLE OF THE STATE: SOME HISTORIES -- 2 Restructuring Public and Private: Women's Paid and Unpaid Work -- 3 A Little Sex Can Be a Dangerous Thing: Regulating Sexuality, Venereal Disease, and Reproduction in British Columbia, 1919-1945 -- 4 Sounds of Silence: The Public/Private Dichotomy, Violence, and Aboriginal Women -- PART 2 FAMILY, HOME, AND WORK -- 5 Who Pays for Caring for Children? Public Policy and the Devaluation of Women's Work -- 6 Across the Home/Work Divide: Homework in Garment Manufacture and the Failure of Employment Regulation -- 7 Some Mothers Are Better Than Others: A Re-examination of Maternity Benefits -- 8 Balancing Acts: Career and Family among Lawyers -- PART 3 LEGAL REGULATION OF MOTHERHOOD: CHILD CUSTODY AND CHILD WELFARE -- 9 'A Jury Dressed in Medical White and Judicial Black': Mothers with Mental Health Histories in Child Welfare and Custody -- 10 Looking beyond Tyabji: Employed Mothers, Lifestyles, and Child Custody Law -- 11 Lesbians, Child Custody, and the Long Lingering Gaze of the Law -- PART 4 CURRENT CHALLENGES: RESTRUCTURING, PRIVATIZATION, AND GLOBALIZATION -- 12 Public Taxes, Privatizing Effects, and Gender Inequality -- 13 Blue Meanies in Alberta: Tory Tactics and the Privatization of Child Welfare -- 14 Going Global: Feminist Theory, International Law, and the Public/Private Divide -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Feminist scholars in disciplines ranging from law to geography challenge our traditional notion of a public/private divide in legal and public policy in Canada and internationally.

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