Family law and gender bias : comparative perspectives
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Family law and gender bias : comparative perspectives
（International review of comparative public policy : a research annual / series editor: Nicholas Mercuro, v. 4）
JAI Press, 1992
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Part of a series offering international reviews of comparative public policy, this volume provides comparative perspectives on family law and gender bias. Topics discussed include: the concept of the natural family and the American family; gender and racial sterotype; and patriarchy in China.
Table of Contents
- Statement of scope, Nicholas Mercuro
- foreword - Rappaccini's daughters?, Barbara Stark
- paying for women's work - the unfinished business of the American family law revolution, Annamay T. Sheppard
- the concept of the natural family and the limits of the American family, Martha Albertson Fineman
- gender and racial stereotype, family and law and Black family - Harpo's blues, Steven H. Hobbs
- psycho-feminism and divorce law - Oedipus wrecks, Barbara Stark
- that feminist dilemma in mediation, Nancy G. Maxwell
- violence in the family - documents of international human rights law and the new consitution in Brazil, Catherine Tinker and Silvia Pimentel
- mediation of family disputes in Australia, Hilary E. Astor
- family law, women's rights and sexual discrimination in France, Francoise Dekeuwer-Defossez
- nations of the family in recent Swedish law, Anita Dahlberg and Nadine Taub
- sex discrimination in Japanese family law, Noriko Mizuno
- law, ideology and patriarchy in China - feminist observations of the ethnic spectator, Sharo K. Hom
- family law and gender in Kenya, Janet Kabeberi-Macharia
- Israel - the incorporation of religious patriarchyu in a modern state, Frances Raday
- marriage laws in Moslem countries - a comparative study of certain Egyptian, Syrian, Moroccan and Tunisian marriage laws, Azizah Y. al-Hibri
- family law in the Palestinian West Bank, Mona Rishmawi.
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