Full Description
This collection of original essays looks at a topic of growing interest and debate in feminist and historical circles: the social regulation of women through law during the 19th and 20th centuries, and the resistance which emerged in response. The collection refutes the notion of women oppressed during the 19th century, unable to act in opposition to the law. When issues of motherhood and women's sexuality became areas of public policy, women began to negotiate the law, as case studies from Europe and the USA show. This book should be of interest to students of women's studies, sociology of law, and social policy.
Contents
Part I: History and Theory of the Regime of the Brother 1. The Primal Scene of Modernity 2. Modernity as the Abscence of the Other Part II: Readings in the Regime of the Brother 3. Egomimesis 4. Feminine Eros: From the Bourgeois State to the Nuclear State Part III: The End(s) of Love in the Western World 5. The End(s) of Love in the Western World 6. Reconstructing the Desire of the Mother 7. After the New Regime
