Susan B Boyd, Dorothy E Chunn, Fiona Kelly, Wanda Wiegers

Autonomous Motherhood?

A Socio-Legal Study of Choice and Constraint

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using a feminist socio-legal framework, Autonomous Motherhood? probes fundamental assumptions within the law about the nature of family and parenting.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781442648951
• ISBN-10: 1442648953
• Artikelnr.: 41854490

Autorenporträt

Susan B. Boyd is a professor and holds the Chair in Feminist Legal Studies in the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Motherhood, Autonomy, Choice, and Constraint
2. Autonomous Mothers and the Emergence of Unmarried Fathers’ Rights to
Access and Custody
3. “A Person is the Child of his Natural Parents”: Illegitimacy, Law
Reform, and Maternal Autonomy
4. Custody and Access Disputes between Unmarried, Non-Cohabiting Biological
Parents 1945–2009
5. Women’s Experiences Of Autonomous Motherhood, 1965–2010: An Historical
Snapshot
6. Autonomous from the Start: The Narratives of Single Mothers by Choice
7. Whither Autonomous Motherhood? Choice and Constraint