Challenging the Public/Private Divide : : Feminism, Law, and Public Policy /

Challenging the Public/Private Divide : : Feminism, Law, and Public Policy / / ed. by Susan B. Boyd.

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Western thought has long been characterized by an ideological divide between public and private spheres. In the industrial era, the divide became highly gendered as men dominated the public spheres of politics and work, while women were closely associated with family and home. In the late twentieth...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Armstrong, Pat,
Boyd, Susan B.,
Buss, Doris Elisabeth,
Chunn, Dorothy E.,
Iyer, Nitya,
Kay, Fiona M.,
Kline, Marlee,
Koshan, Jennifer,
Millbank, Jenni,
Mosoff, Judith,
Ocran, Amanda Araba,
Teghtsoonian, Katherine,
Young, Claire El.,
HerausgeberIn:
Boyd, Susan B.,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1997
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. Challenging the Public/Private Divide: An Overview
  • PART 1. THE ROLE OF THE STATE: SOME HISTORIES
  • 2. Restructuring Public and Private: Women's Paid and Unpaid Work
  • 3. A Little Sex Can Be a Dangerous Thing: Regulating Sexuality, Venereal Disease, and Reproduction in British Columbia, 1919-1945
  • 4. Sounds of Silence: The Public/Private Dichotomy, Violence, and Aboriginal Women
  • PART 2. FAMILY, HOME, AND WORK
  • 5. Who Pays for Caring for Children? Public Policy and the Devaluation of Women's Work
  • 6. Across the Home/Work Divide: Homework in Garment Manufacture and the Failure of Employment Regulation
  • 7. Some Mothers Are Better Than Others: A Re-examination of Maternity Benefits
  • 8. Balancing Acts: Career and Family among Lawyers
  • PART 3. LEGAL REGULATION O F MOTHERHOOD: CHILD CUSTODY AND CHILD WELFARE
  • 9. A Jury Dressed in Medical White and Judicial Black': Mothers with Mental Health Histories in Child Welfare and Custody
  • 10. Looking beyond Tyabji: Employed Mothers, Lifestyles, and Child Custody Law
  • 11. Lesbians, Child Custody, and the Long Lingering Gaze of the Law
  • PART 4. CURRENT CHALLENGES RESTRUCTURING, PRIVATIZATION, AND GLOBALIZATION
  • 12. Public Taxes, Privatizing Effects, and Gender Inequality
  • 13. Blue Meanies in Alberta: Tory Tactics and the Privatization of Child Welfare
  • 14. Going Global: Feminist Theory, International Law, and the Public/Private Divide
  • Index

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