Product Description: Care and women's emancipation have often been seen as opposed. Politicians have begun to look again at the issue of care in the context of new reforms in the welfare state, health care policies and family law. Using concrete examples taken from parental rights cases, health care education and the public health sector...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Does equality imply the same treatment of men and women? Or is different treatment needed to ensure equal levels of autonomy for both sexes? By discussing equality in specific contexts such as welfare, pregnancy, child custody, protective legislation and employment, the contributors to this volume provide powerful insights into both the analytic concept of equality and strategies for devising, implementing and evaluating public policy...read more

Product Description: This collection of papers challenges the trends for joint custody and argues that misleading notions of new fathers and enforced equality can lead to custody decisions which are not always in the best interests of the children. This book should be of interest to teachers and students of family law, women's studies, social policy, family law practitioners...read more

Examines motherhood and feminism, psychoanalysis, the Third World, individual power, and traditional sex roles