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Fragmenting Fatherhood - A Socio-Legal Study (Paperback)
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Fragmenting Fatherhood - A Socio-Legal Study (Paperback)
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Debates about the future of fatherhood have been central to a range
of conversations about changing family forms, parenting and
society. Law has served an important, yet often neglected, role in
these discussions, serving as an important focal point for broader
political frustrations, playing a central role in mediating
disputes, and operating as a significant, symbolic,
state-sanctioned account of the scope of paternal rights and
responsibilities. Fragmenting Fatherhood provides the first
sustained engagement with the way that fatherhood has been
understood, constructed and regulated within English law. Drawing
on a range of disparate legal provisions and material from diverse
disciplines, it sketches the major contours of the figure of the
father as drawn in law and social policy, tracing shifts in legal
and broader understandings of what it means to be a 'father'and
what rights and obligations should accrue to that status. In
thematically linked chapters cutting across substantive areas of
law, the book locates fatherhood as a key site of contestation
within broader political debates regarding the family and gender
equality. Multiple visions of fatherhood, evolving unevenly over
time across diverse areas of law, emerge from this analysis.
Fatherhood is revealed as an essentially fragmented status and one
which is intertwined in complex ways with the legal, cultural and
political contexts in which discourses of parenthood are produced.
Fragmenting Fatherhood provides an important and unique resource,
speaking to debates about fatherhood across a range of fields
including law and legal theory, sociology, gender studies, social
policy, marriage and the family, women's studies and gender
studies.
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