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How family is formed, lived and understood has shifted dramatically—yet legal frameworks often still reflect outdated norms. This interdisciplinary collection brings together a diverse team of international contributors to explore what a family is through the lenses of law, sociology, psychology, anthropology, economics and history.
Contents
Foreword - Martha Albertson Fineman
1. Introduction - Claire Fenton-Glynn and Alice Margaria
Part 1: Unsettling Traditional Paradigms
2. What Is a Family? A Feminist Family Science Perspective - Katherine R Allen
3. The Legal Family - Alan Brown
4. The Family and Its Disruption by Transgender Families - a Study of the Cases 'Nigel and Beth' and 'Christina and Kimberly' - Claire Jenkins
Part 2: Developing Regulation of Adult Relationships
5. Marriage and Family Formation at the Intersection of Law and History - Mary Jo Maynes
6. What Is a 'European Family'? - Jens M Scherpe
7. Why Should the State Recognize Non-Conjugal Unions? An Analysis of the Debate Around Their Legal Recognition - Nausica Palazzo and Daniel Cardoso
Part 3: Empirical Approaches to Defining Families
8. What Is a Family? A Developmental Psychology Perspective - Kate Ellis-Davies and Sarah Foley
9. A Feminist Economist's Perspective on Marriage Laws - Shoshana Grossbard
10. Family Ideals Across Cultures - Arnstein Aassve, Alícia Adserà, Paul Y. Chang, Letizia Mencarini, Chen Peng, Samuel Plach, James M. Raymo, Senhu Wang, and Wei-Jun Jean Yeung
Part 4: Rethinking the Family of Law
11. The Legal Family as a Child Development Incubator - Noam Peleg
12. From Folkhemmet to Post-Welfare Sweden: Rethinking Care and Dependency in a Neoliberal Context - Helena Moradi
13. Loneliness and Care: Rethinking the Role of Family Law - Jonathan Herring
