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Title

Kinship matters / edited by Fatemeh Ebtehaj, Bridget Lindley, Martin Richards, for the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group.

Publication

Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Ebtehaj, Fatemeh
• Lindley, Bridget.
• Richards, Martin, 1940 January 26-
• Cambridge Socio-Legal Group

Description

xv, 311 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Assembling contributions from scholars in a range of disciplines, this work examines social, legal, cultural and psychological questions related to kinship. It concerns the evolving notions and practices of kinship in contemporary Britain and the interrelationship of kinship, law and social policy.

Subject

• Kinship (Law) > England > Congresses
• Kinship (Law) > Wales > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "... product of a three day workshop held in Cambridge in September 2005"--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction : regulating relationships? / Fatemeh Ebtehaj -- 2. 'Close marriage' in the nineteenth and twentieth century Middle Strata / Leonore Davidoff -- 3. Status anxiety? : the rush for family recognition / Andrew Bainham -- 4. DNA testing and kinship : paternity, genealogy and the search for the 'truth' of genetic origins / Tabitha Freeman and Martin Richards -- 5. Children and their changing families : obligations, responsibilities, and benefits / Jan Pryor -- 6. Substitute care of children by members of their extended families and social networks : an overview / Joan Hunt -- 7. Recognising carers for what they do -- legal problems and solutions for the kinship care of children / Judith Masson and Bridget Lindley -- 8. Restorative practices : repairing harm through kith and kin / Loraine Gelsthorpe and Layla Skinns -- 9. Gender and kinship in contemporary Britain / Jane Nolan and Jacqueline Scott -- 10. Kin availability, contact and support exchanges between adult children and their parents in Great Britain / Emily Grundy and Michael Murphy -- 11. Maintenance of the elderly and legal signalling -- kinship and state / Mika Oldham -- 12. The impact of migration on care : the Iranian experience / Fatemeh Ebtehaj -- 13. Family care and transnational kinship : British-Pakistani experiences / Kaveri Harriss and Alison Shaw -- 14. Kinship, infertility and new reproductive technologies : a British-Pakistani Muslim perspective / Nazalie Iqbal and Robert Simpson -- 15. Kinship as 'family' in contemporary Britain / Janet Finch.

ISBN

• 9781841136974 (pbk.)
• 1841136972 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007272631

OCLC

• 70672448
• SCSB-10441510

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library