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The new family and the new property
- Title
- The new family and the new property / Mary Ann Glendon.
- Author
- Glendon, Mary Ann, 1938-
- Publication
- Toronto : Butterworths, 1981.
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- Description
- xvii, 269 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [247]-262.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Part I. The new family -- Chapter 1. The attenuation of family ties: the ties that bind -- A. Circumscribing the family unit: the law of companionate marriage -- B. The bonding of the new family -- 1. The marriage bond: its centrality and closeness -- 2. Fluidity, detachability, and interchangeability -- a. Marriage -- b. Parents and children -- C. The emergence of the individual -- Chapter 2. The attenuation of family ties: the ties that support -- A. The narrowing of the circle -- B. The casualties of divorce -- 1. Spousal support -- 2. Property division -- 3. Child support -- 4. Dissolution of de facto families -- 5. Conclusion -- C. The sharing of functions -- 1. The support capacity of the new family -- 2. Old and new property -- D. Conclusion -- Part II. Families, property and law -- Chapter 3. Family law and property -- A. The transformation of family law -- B. Law to strengthen families? -- 1. Private law -- 2. Public law -- C. The "liberated" individual -- Part III. The new property -- Chapter 4. Altered patterns of legal bonding -- A. Occupational bonding -- 1. The ties that bind the job to the employee -- 2. The ties that bind the employee to the job -- B. Landlord-tenant excursus -- C. Law to make existence secure? -- D. The job as property: access, instability and ambiguity -- Chapter 5. Towards and feudalism of new property? -- A. The institutional context -- B. The transformation of private law -- C.A rational society? -- D. The iron cage and the golden chain.
- ISBN
- 0409834106
- 9780409834109
- OCLC
- ocm07763304
- 7763304
- SCSB-58628
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library