Challenging the public/private divide : feminism, law, and public policy /

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Imprint:Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c1997.
Description:xiii, 392 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2907644
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Other authors / contributors:Boyd, Susan B.
ISBN:0802007031 (bound)
0802076521 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Challenging the Public/Private Divide: An Overview / Susan B. Boyd
  • 2. Restructuring Public and Private: Women's Paid and Unpaid Work / Pat Armstrong
  • 3. A Little Sex Can Be a Dangerous Thing: Regulating Sexuality, Venereal Disease, and Reproduction in British Columbia, 1919-1945 / Dorothy E. Chunn
  • 4. Sounds of Silence: The Public/Private Dichotomy, Violence, and Aboriginal Women / Jennifer Koshan
  • 5. Who Pays for Caring for Children? Public Policy and the Devaluation of Women's Work / Katherine Teghtsoonian
  • 6. Across the Home/Work Divide: Homework in Garment Manufacture and the Failure of Employment Regulation / Amanda Araba Ocran
  • 7. Some Mothers Are Better Than Others: A Re-examination of Maternity Benefits / Nitya Iyer
  • 8. Balancing Acts: Career and Family among Lawyers / Fiona M. Kay
  • 9. 'A Jury Dressed in Medical White and Judicial Black': Mothers with Mental Health Histories in Child Welfare and Custody / Judith Mosoff
  • 10. Looking beyond Tyabji: Employed Mothers, Lifestyles, and Child Custody Law / Susan B. Boyd
  • 11. Lesbians, Child Custody, and the Long Lingering Gaze of the Law / Jenni Millbank
  • 12. Public Taxes, Privatizing Effects, and Gender Inequality / Claire F. L. Young
  • 13. Blue Meanies in Alberta: Tory Tactics and the Privatization of Child Welfare / Marlee Kline
  • 14. Going Global: Feminist Theory, International Law, and the Public/Private Divide / Doris Elisabeth Buss.