Undercurrents of divorce /

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Imprint:Aldershot, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, c1999.
Description:x, 257 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3825558
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Other authors / contributors:Piper, Christine.
Sclater, Shelley Day.
ISBN:1840147334
Notes:"Socio-legal studies series"--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Contributors
  • Foreword
  • Part I. Introduction
  • 1. The Family Law Act 1996 in Context
  • Part II. Children and Parents
  • 2. In Whose Best Interests? Theorising Family Life Following Parental Separation or Divorce
  • 3. Children and Divorce: A Private Affair?
  • 4. The Wishes and Feelings of the Child
  • 5. Contact, Conflict and Risk
  • Part III. Husbands and Wives
  • 6. From Women's Emancipation to Sex War? Men, Heterosexuality and the Politics of Divorce
  • 7. Divorce: A Psychodynamic Perspective
  • 8. Experiences of Divorce
  • 9. Divorce and Domestic Violence
  • 10. Dividing the Family Assets
  • Part IV. Conclusions
  • 11. Changing Divorce
  • Index