Undercurrents of Divorce

ISBN-13: 9780367197087 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 268 str.

SCLATER

Opis

Published in 1999, This book brings these undercurrents to the surface to explain how and why aspects of divorce and the lives of those divorcing, have become marginalized in professional and political discussion and makes visible the practical and legal effects of such exclusion.

Recenzje

’...offers fresh perspectives...’ Journal of Marriage and the Family

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: The Family Law Act 1996 in context, Shelley Day Sclater and Christine Piper. Children and Parents: In whose best interests? Theorizing family life following parental separation or divorce, Bren Neale and Carol Smart; Children and divorce: a private affair?, Jeremy Roche; The wishes and feelings of the child, Christine Piper; Contact, conflict and risk, Felicity Kaganas. Husbands and Wives: From women's emancipation to sex war?; Men, heterosexuality and the politics of divorce, Richard Collier; Divorce: a psychodynamic perspective, Joanne Brown and Shelley Day Sclater; Experiences of divorce, Shelley Day Sclater; Divorce and domestic violence, Felicity Kaganas and Christine Piper; Dividing the family assets, Alison Diduck. Conclusions: Changing divorce, Christine Piper and Shelley Day Sclater; Index.