Introduction Jennifer HickeyPart I. Gender Equality Introduction Deborah Dinner 1. The Equality Ideal 2. Challenging Law, Establishing Differences 3. Equality Discourse and Economic Decisions Made at Divorce 4. The Individualization of the Family: Child Advocacy 5. The Illusion of Equality Part II. The Sexual Family Introduction Teemu Ruskola 6. The End of Family Law? Intimacy in the Twenty-First Century 7. A Claim for Justice Part III. Dependency Introduction Michael Thomson 8. A Dystopian Fantasy 9. Dependency and Social Debt: Cracking the Foundational Myths 10. The New Tokenism Part IV. Autonomy Introduction Martha McCluskey 11. Equality and Autonomy 12. Posing the Philosophy for an Active State 13. What Place for Family Privacy? Part V. Vulnerability Introduction Aziza Ahmed 14. Vulnerability and Inevitable Inequality 15. Equality and Difference – The Restrained State 16. The “Still Face” of a Compassionately-Challenged Society 17. Injury in the Unresponsive State 18. Vulnerability and Social Justice 19. Conclusion: Resilience is the Watchword Lua Kamál Yuille Afterword Atieno Mboya Samandari
Jennifer Hickey is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative at Emory University School of Law, USA.