Research Catalog

Title

Women going backwards : law and change in a family unfriendly society / Sandra Berns.

Author

Berns, Sandra.

Publication

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2002.

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Details

Description

viii, 223 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"In this book, signifiers such as gender, worker and family are unpacked and suggestions are made as to how common usage of these signifiers reinforce existing practices and act as barriers to change. Some of these changes are legal, others are social and others are driven by political and policy agendas. By looking at five areas: equal opportunity law, family law, industrial relations law, social welfare law and taxation law, which are all profoundly gendered, the author examines ways in which men and women see their roles and choices and how these are related to the state, as citizens."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

[Applied legal philosophy]

Uniform Title

[Applied legal philosophy].

Subject

• Equality before the law
• Women > Legal status, laws, etc

Note

• Series from jacket.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-221) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The persistence of inequality -- 2. The Unencumbered citizen -- 3. Equal opportunity: rhetoric and reality -- 4. The fragile family -- 5. Structuring dependence: family, state and self -- 6. Workplaces and women: an uneasy relationship -- 7. The family as signifier: tax and families -- 8. Making room for families: choices and realities.

ISBN

0754623033 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002066466

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library