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Tables of Contents for From Partners to Parents
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Acknowledgements
ix
Introduction: From Partners to Parents---The Second Revolution in Family Law
xi
Part I. From Partners to Parents: The Philosophical Divide
Economics and the Family: Reformulating the Old Order
3
7
Feminism and Political Theory: The Traditional Family and Its Discontents
10
6
Feminism and Economics: Becker Meets Okin
16
1
Law, Public Policy, and the Feminism of Difference
16
9
Liberal Feminism vs. the Feminism of Difference: Or, The Huxtables vs. Grace Under Fire
25
5
Fineman and Becker: Feminism vs. Economics
30
5
Morality, Family, and the State
35
7
What Is the Purpose of Family Policy? Galston vs. Fineman---with the Others Watching from the Sidelines
42
6
Conclusion
48
7
Part II. From Partners to Parents: The Empirical Debate
History and the Making of the Modern Family (with Apologies to Edward Shorter)
55
12
Race, Class, and Controversy
67
18
What Did Happen? Economics Revisited
85
13
Economics and History: The Chapter Yet to Be Written
98
13
And What About the Children?
111
12
Conclusion
123
10
Part III. From Partners to Parents: The Legal Revolution
The Meaning of Marriage
133
11
Partnership Revisited
144
10
Child Support and the Parenthood Draft
154
10
The Remaking of Fatherhood
164
16
Child Custody at Divorce: Ground Zero in the Gender Wars
180
15
Welfare Reform and the Permissibility of Motherhood
195
16
Renegotiating Childhood
211
16
Conclusion: From Partners to Parents---The Unfinished Revolution
227
16
Appendix
243
6
Notes
249
62
Bibliography
311
12
Copyright and Permissions Acknowledgments
323
4
Index
327