Changing Contours of Domestic Life, Family and Law : Caring and Sharing
Anne. Bottomley
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Oxford : : Hart Publishing Limited, , 2009.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (235 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Prelims; Contents; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction Changing Contours of Domestic Life, Family and Law: Caring and Sharing; 2 Making Kin: Relationality and Law; Part I Property Division in Couple Relationships; 3 Property and Couple Relationships: What Does Community of Property Have to Offer English Law?; 4 Caring and Sharing: Interdependency as a Basis for Property Redistribution?; Part II What is Fair and to Whom?; 5 Relationship Fairness; 6 Taking Spousal Status into Account for Tax Purposes: The Pitfalls and Penalties; Part III Heteronormativity and Marriage Fundamentalism. - 7 Marriage or Naught? Marriage and Unmarried Cohabitation in Canada8 Same-Sex Immigration: Domestication and Homonormativity; Part IV Pushing at the Contours of Domestic Relationships; 9 'They shall be simple in their homes . . .': The Many Dimensions of the Idea and Practices of Co-operative Housing; 10 Intentional Communities and Care-giving: Co-Housing Possibilities; Bibliography; Index. - Drawing from a wide range of material and socio-legal methods, this collection brings together original essays, written by internationally renowned scholars, investigating emerging patterns in the shape and form of the legal regulation of domestic relations. Taking as a focus the theme of 'caring and sharing', the collection includes chapters which reflect on the changing contours of what we think of as 'domestic relations'; the impact which legal recognition carries in making visible some relationships rather than others; the potential for normative values carried within patterns of legal rec
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| ISBN | 9781841139036. - 9781841139043
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