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The illusion of equality : the rhetoric and reality of divorce reform / Martha Albertson Fineman.

Title
The illusion of equality : the rhetoric and reality of divorce reform / Martha Albertson Fineman.
Author
Fineman, Martha.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991.

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Description
vii, 252 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Divorce > Law and legislation > United States
  • Married women > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
  • Married women > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-248) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Recasting of family law -- Family as a site of rhetorical & ideological contest -- Equality discourse & economic decisions made at divorce -- Embracing equality -- Child custody -- Individualization of the family -- Use of the social sciences in custody policy-making -- Constructing the social science foundation for an ideological solution -- Resort to alternative decision makers -- Alternative visions from discarded discourses
ISBN
0226249565 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^90011274^//r932
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library