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fatherhood in English law by leading scholars in the areas of law and gender.
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Fragmenting Fatherhood
A Socio-Legal Study
Richard Collier and Sally Sheldon
Debates about the future of fatherhood have been central to a range of conversations about
changing family forms, parenting and society. Law has served an important, yet often
neglected, role in these discussions, serving as an important focal point for broader
political frustrations, playing a central role in mediating disputes, and operating as a
significant, symbolic, state-sanctioned account of the scope of paternal rights and responsibilities. Fragmenting
Fatherhood provides the first sustained engagement with the way that fatherhood has been understood, constructed
and regulated within English law. Drawing on a range of disparate legal provisions and material from diverse
disciplines, it sketches the major contours of the figure of the father as drawn in law and social policy, tracing shifts
in legal and broader understandings of what it means to be a 'father'and what rights and obligations should accrue to
that status. In thematically linked chapters cutting across substantive areas of law, the book locates fatherhood as a
key site of contestation within broader political debates regarding the family and gender equality. Multiple visions of
fatherhood, evolving unevenly over time across diverse areas of law, emerge from this analysis. Fatherhood is
revealed as an essentially fragmented status and one which is intertwined in complex ways with the legal, cultural
and political contexts in which discourses of parenthood are produced.
Fragmenting Fatherhood provides an important and unique resource, speaking to debates about fatherhood across a
range of fields including law and legal theory, sociology, gender studies, social policy, marriage and the family,
women's studies and gender studies.
Richard Collier is Professor of Law at the University of Newcastle.Sally Sheldon is a Professor of Law at the
University of Kent.
Sept 08
324pp
Pbk
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9781841134178
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Contents
1. Introducing Fatherhood and Law
Introduction
‘Fragmenting Fatherhood’
The Structure of the Argument
Contexts of Change: New Families, New Fatherhood?
Researching Fatherhood, New Questions for Law
Family Law, Family Policy and Fatherhood
Law, Families, Fatherhood: Conceptual Questions
Conclusion
2. Fatherhood and ‘Natural’ Reproduction
Introduction
Preventing Fatherhood: Contraception and Abortion
Reproductive Agency, Antenatal Responsibility and Foetal Welfare
Fathers, Pregnancy and Childbirth
Conclusion
3. Fatherhood and Assisted Reproduction
Introduction
Child Welfare and the Need for a Father
Diane Blood, Deceased Fathers and the Privileging of Widows
The Status Provisions
Surrogacy
Donor Insemination and Anonymity
Rights in Stored Embryos
Conclusion
4. Marital Fatherhood
Introduction
(Re)Constructing the ‘Family Man’ as Breadwinner: From Rights to Responsibility
Making the ‘Father Figure’?: Reconstructing Responsible Fatherhood
Gender Equality, Gendered Lives: The Limits of the ‘New Fatherhood’?
Concluding Remarks: Policy, Practice and the Contradictions of the New Fatherhood
5. Post-Separation Fatherhood
Introduction
A Context: The Changing Nature of Post-separation Parenting
A History: Divorce Law, the ‘New Consensus’ and the Remaking of Post-separation Fatherhood
Law, Contact and the ‘Responsible’ Post-separation Father
Reassessing the Politics of Post-separation Fatherhood: Questions of Conflict, Emotion and Gender
Conclusion
6. Unmarried Fatherhood
Introduction
Unmarried Fatherhood and Cohabitation
The Law of Illegitimacy
Contemporary Legal Treatment of Unmarried Fathers
Conclusion
7. Fragmenting Fatherhood
Introduction
Beyond the ‘New Fatherhood’
Fatherhood, Masculinities and the ‘Problem of Men’
Equality, Gender Convergence and ‘Geneticisation’
Fatherhood and Law: Theoretical Issues
Conclusion: Fragmentation, Tension and Contradiction
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