Fathers' Rights Activism and Law Reform in Comparative Perspective

. Ed(s): Collier, Richard; Sheldon, Sally

ISBN 10: 1841136298 / ISBN 13: 9781841136295

Published by Hart Publishing, 2006

About this Item

This book provides a careful, critical and comparative analysis of the work, campaigning and legal strategies of fathers' rights activists. Editor(s): Collier, Richard; Sheldon, Sally. Num Pages: 190 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: LAM; LNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 10. Weight in Grams: 278. . 2006. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fathers' Rights Activism and Law Reform in Comparative Perspective
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841136298
• ISBN 13: 9781841136295
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The legal status, responsibilities and rights of men who are fathers - married or unmarried, cohabiting or separated, biological or social in nature - is a topic with a long and well-documented history. Yet recent developments in a number of countries suggest a growing politicisation of the relationship between law and fatherhood. In some countries, an increasingly vocal, visible and well-organised fathers' rights movement has been credited with influencing perceptions of the politics of family justice. Fathers, it is argued, have become the new victims of family law justice systems that have swung 'too far' in favour of mothers. Armed with such claims, fathers' rights activists have set out to achieve a range of legal reforms, most notably in the areas of child support law and contact and residence rights following separation.

This book presents an attempt to understand these developments. Bringing together leading international commentators it provides a careful, critical and comparative analysis of the work of fathers' rights activists, the role law has played in their campaigning, their legal strategies, their success (or otherwise) in achieving legal reform, similarities and divergences with the women's movement, and the relationship between fathers' rights movements and the societies that frame them.

In addition to Collier and Sheldon, contributors include: Susan B Boyd (University of British Columbia, Canada), Jocelyn Crowley (Rutgers University, USA), Maria Eriksson (Goteborg University, Sweden), Keith Pringle (Aalborg University, Denmark), Helen Rhoades (Melbourne University, Australia), and Carol Smart (Manchester University, UK).

About the Author

Richard Collier is Professor of Law at Newcastle University. Sally Sheldon is Professor of Law at the University of Kent. Together, they have also written Fragmenting Fatherhood: A Socio-Legal Study (Hart, 2008).