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

Published by University of Toronto Press 1997

Challenging the Public/Private Divide

Feminism, Law, and Public Policy

Edited by: Susan B. Boyd

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442672819

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About this book

Feminist scholars in disciplines ranging from law to geography challenge our traditional notion of a public/private divide in legal and public policy in Canada and internationally

Author / Editor information

Boyd Susan B. :

Susan B. Boyd is a professor and holds the Chair in Feminist Legal Studies in the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface and Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
INTRODUCTION
1. Challenging the Public/Private Divide: An Overview Susan B. Boyd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
PART 1. THE ROLE OF THE STATE: SOME HISTORIES
2. Restructuring Public and Private: Women's Paid and Unpaid Work Pat Armstrong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3. A Little Sex Can Be a Dangerous Thing: Regulating Sexuality, Venereal Disease, and Reproduction in British Columbia, 1919-1945 Dorothy E. Chunn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
4. Sounds of Silence: The Public/Private Dichotomy, Violence, and Aboriginal Women Jennifer Koshan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
PART 2. FAMILY, HOME, AND WORK
5. Who Pays for Caring for Children? Public Policy and the Devaluation of Women's Work Katherine Teghtsoonian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
6. Across the Home/Work Divide: Homework in Garment Manufacture and the Failure of Employment Regulation Amanda Araba Ocran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
7. Some Mothers Are Better Than Others: A Re-examination of Maternity Benefits Nitya Iyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
8. Balancing Acts: Career and Family among Lawyers Fiona M. Kay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
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 Judith Mosoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
10. Looking beyond Tyabji: Employed Mothers, Lifestyles, and Child Custody Law Susan B. Boyd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
11. Lesbians, Child Custody, and the Long Lingering Gaze of the Law Jenni Millbank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
PART 4. CURRENT CHALLENGES RESTRUCTURING, PRIVATIZATION, AND GLOBALIZATION
12. Public Taxes, Privatizing Effects, and Gender Inequality Claire El. Young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
13. Blue Meanies in Alberta: Tory Tactics and the Privatization of Child Welfare Marlee Kline Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	330
14. Going Global: Feminist Theory, International Law, and the Public/Private Divide Doris Elisabeth Buss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	360
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 416

eBook

Published: September 9, 1997
ISBN: 9781442672819