ABSTRACT
At a time when same-sex marriage, gay adoption, and the rise of single-parent households challenge traditional views of the family, this innovative volume helps readers put such issues into social and legal perspective. Engster and Metz bring together essential readings in political and legal theory and organise them to illuminate pressing contemporary debates on the family: gender and justice, parents and children, the state and globalisation. Justice, Politics, and the Family is an engaging and a diverse addition to the area of critical legal theory and sociology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|48 pages
What Is the “Family”?
part II|50 pages
Justice, Gender, and the Family
part III|50 pages
Parents and Children
part IV|50 pages
Families and the State
part V|36 pages
Multiculturalism, the Family, and Dilemmas of Justice
part VI|24 pages
Globalization and the Family