Feminist Perspectives on Child Law is a collection of interdisciplinary socio-legal essays which explore the complex relationship between childhood,gender and the law. Drawing on a wide range of feminist and critical theories and empirical research, these original essays challenge the gender neutrality of law; they explore the shifting constructions of childhood by law, legal practice and popular culture; and they provide critical and timely insights into the complex relationship between adults and children.
The essays go beyond the traditional boundaries of child law within the law school curriculum and within legal practice by addressing a wide range of issues, such as health, criminal justice, education, sexuality and domestic violence.
By approaching these issues in innovative ways, the essays question the impact of gender on social and cultural understandings of childhood and on contemporary interpretations of child welfare and give voice to the different choices and experiences of male and female children.
Series Editors Preface, Contributors, Acknowledgments, Table of Cases,
Table of Statutes, Table of Abbreviations,
1. INTRODUCTION: REFLECTIONS ON
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FEMINISM AND CHILD LAW,
2. FEMINISM AND CHILD LAW,
3. CHILDREN BY DONATION: DO THEY HAVE A CLAIM TO THEIR GENETIC PARENTAGE?,
4.
CONSTRUCTIONS OF MATERNITY AND MOTHERHOOD IN STORIES OF LOST CHILDREN,
5.
DIVORCING THE CHILDREN,
6. ANXIOUS PARENTHOOD, THE VULNERABLE CHILD AND THE
GOOD FATHER: REFLECTIONS ON THE LEGAL REGULATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN MEN AND CHILDREN,
7. CONTACT AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: THE IDEOLOGICAL
DIVIDE,
8. GOVERNING BAD GIRLS: CHANGING CONSTRUCTIONS OF FEMALE JUVENILE
DELINQUENCY,
9. LEGAL, PROTECTED AND TIMELY: YOUNG PEOPLES PERSPECTIVES ON
THE HETEROSEXUAL AGE OF CONSENT,
10. EDUCATION LAW/EDUCATING GENDER,
11.
EMBODYING OUR HOPES AND FEARS?,
12. FEMINISM AND CHILDRENS RIGHTS,
13.
SOLICITORS AND LEGAL SUBJECTS,
14. HOW THE UN STOLE CHILDHOOD: THE
CHRISTIAN RIGHT AND THE INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS OF THE CHILD, Bibliography, Index
Jo Bridgeman, Daniel Monk
