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The Neutered Mother, the Sexual Family and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies
Published in Paperback by Routledge (1995)
Author: Martha Albertson Fineman
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Despite the alarming title
Despite the rather alarming-sounding title, this is actually a rather innovative and interesting theoretical work about the meaning of family. The author proposes that a new definition of family be legally adopted to reflect practice and need, rather than traditional notions. She uses the mother and child model (this a metaphor for the nurturer and dependant individuals, whatever their age or gender) rather than our idea now that the sexual tie between husband and wife is the tie that binds. So, rather than giving tax breaks and inheritance rights and the myriad of legal advantages to protect a family on the basis of marriage, Martha Fineman proposes that the same advantages be provided by our society to a single mother with a child, or a man in his 30s taking care of his elderly parents, or a woman who lives with and supports her developmentally disabled brother, etc. It is really a completely radical idea, but it is argued persuasively. If she can't convince you, she will at least make you reconsider the assumptions one makes about families and their legal rights and responsibilities.

a free-thinking and informed thinker--not a feminist
ok, I am (yes) a male and I have an interest in gender issues. I happen to think that, just below the surface, our society has serious gender related ills. I have been looking around for years for someone who can attack this problem--approach it, define it, and with the vision to imagine new social possibilities which may offer solutions. This, I think, is needed--not reactionary, experiential nonsense! And out with conservatives and their nineteenth-century-solutions! The best of what our country is is based upon just the kind of careful rationalistic social solutions we find offered in Dr. Fineman's well-crafted book. Thomas Jefferson would love this book. I'm not saying she's got the answers, but this is exactly the kind of dialect that is called as the people--no longer the men--of our country look for direction in this transitional era.


The Digest Book of Freshwater Fishing
Published in Paperback by DBI Books (1979)
Author: Robert Zwirz
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The Illusion of Equality: The Rhetoric and Reality of Divorce Reform
Published in Hardcover by University of Chicago Press (1991)
Author: Martha Albertson Fineman
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Mothers in Law: Feminist Theory and the Legal Regulation of Motherhood (Gender and Culture)
Published in Hardcover by Columbia University Press (1995)
Authors: Martha Albertson Fineman and Isabel Karpin
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The Public Nature of Private Violence: The Discovery of Domestic Abuse
Published in Paperback by Routledge (1994)
Authors: Roxanne Mykitiuk, Martha Albertson, and Martha A. Fineman
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