This collection of papers challenges the trends for joint custody and argues that misleading notions of new fathers and enforced equality can lead to custody decisions which are not always in the best interests of the children. This book should be of interest to teachers and students of family law, women's studies, social policy, family law practitioners.

Child Custody and the Politics of Gender (Sociology of Law and Crime Series)

Smart, Carol

Family Law

Routledge

This book should be of interest to teachers and students of family law, women's studies, social policy, family law practitioners.

Child Custody and the Politics of Gender (Sociology of Law and Crime)

<p>Carol Smart presents a new gendered analysis of the power of law and argues for a feminist, post-structuralist approach. She comments on pornography as well as discussing recent research on rape trials and abortion legislation.</p>

Feminism and the Power of Law (Sociology of Law and Crime)

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Carol Smart presents a new gendered analysis of the power of law and argues for a feminist, post-structuralist approach. She comments on pornography as well as discussing recent research on rape trials and abortion legislation. This book should be of interest to students and teachers in law, critical legal studies, women's studies and jurisprudence.

Politics & Social Sciences

Women's Studies

Regulating Womanhood

<p>This collection of original essays looks at a topic of growing interest and debate in feminist and historical circles: the social regulation of women through law during the 19th and 20th centuries, and the resistance which emerged in response. The collection refutes the notion of women oppressed during the 19th century, unable to act in opposition to the law. When issues of motherhood and women's sexuality became areas of public policy, women began to negotiate the law, as case studies from Europe and the USA show. This book should be of interest to students of women's studies, sociology of law, and social policy.</p>

Women, Crime and Criminology (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1977, Women, Crime and Criminology presents a feminist critique of classical and contemporary theories of female criminality. It addresses the issue that criminology literature has, throughout history, been predominantly male-oriented, always treating female criminality as marginal to the ‘proper’ study of crime in society. Carol Smart explores a new direction in criminology, and the sociology of deviance, by investigating female crime from a committed feminist position. Examining the types of offences committed by female offenders, Smart points to the fallacies inherent in a reliance on official statistics and shows the deficiencies of the popular argument that female emancipation has caused an increase in female crime rates. She deals with studies of prostitution and rape and considers the treatment of women – as offenders and victims – by the criminal law, the police and courts, and the penal system. Particular attention is given to the question of lenient treatment for female offenders with the conclusion that women and girls are, in some important instances, actually discriminated against in our legal and penal systems. The relationship between female criminality and mental illness is discussed and the author concludes by dealing with some of the problems inherent in developing a feminist criminology.

Women, Crime and Criminology (Routledge Revivals): A Feminist Critique

Social Sciences

First published in 1984, this book made an important and timely contribution to the development of the idea that the law is a major source of women’s oppression. Based on research of the theory and practice of family law, it examines the way in which private law operates to sustain, reproduce and reinforce the dependence of women in the most private of spheres, namely marriage. The author focuses on the point of break down or divorce, where the economic vulnerability of women caused by marriage and the sexual division of labour is most clearly expressed. She points to the way in which the law, while mitigating the worst excesses of men’s power over women in marriage, has consistently failed to tackle the economic structure of marriage and women’s fundamental material vulnerability inside the family. She confronts various myths on divorce legislation in Britain and discusses alternative feminist proposals for tackling the problems caused by women’s economic dependence in marriage. Although Smart writes in 1984, many of the issues she discusses retain their significance in today’s society.

The Ties That Bind (Routledge Revivals): Law, Marriage and the Reproduction of Patriarchal Relations

Women, sexuality, and social control

Smart, Barry

Routledge and K. Paul

Women, Crime, and Criminology : A Feminist Critique

Routledge and Kegan Paul

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Child Custody and the Politics of Gender (Sociology of Law and Crime Series)

Child Custody and the Politics of Gender (Sociology of Law and Crime)

Feminism and the Power of Law (Sociology of Law and Crime)

Feminism and the Power of Law (Sociology of Law and Crime)

Regulating Womanhood

Women, Crime and Criminology (Routledge Revivals): A Feminist Critique

Women, Crime and Criminology (Routledge Revivals)

The Ties That Bind (Routledge Revivals): Law, Marriage and the Reproduction of Patriarchal Relations

Women, sexuality, and social control

Women, Crime, and Criminology : A Feminist Critique