Family Law Matters - Paperback

by Katherine O'Donovan (Author)

In this radical critique, Professor O'Donovan challenges conventional textbooks which assume that marriage is the essential feature of family life and that the patriarchal unit remains dominant. She shows how the key players in family law discourse - women and children - are largely excluded and argues that it is the birth of children, rather than marriage, which is the constitutive element of the family.

Author Biography

Victoria Brittain lived and worked as a journalist in Washington, Nairobi, Saigon, Algiers and London, and has travelled extensively in Africa and the Middle East. She worked at the Guardian for 20 years. She is author of Death of Dignity: Angolaa (TM)s Civil War (1997), co-author of Moazzam Begga (TM)s Guantanamo memoir, Enemy Combatant (2006) and author and co-author of two verbatim plays.