£36.44

About as cheap as it gets — within 5% of the all-time low it hit 3 months ago.

£36 today · all-time low £36 (Jul 2026) · usually the usual

Oxford University Press Family Law and Personal Life

Name: Family Law and Personal Life
Brand: Oxford University Press
Price: 36.44 GBP
Availability: InStock

Academic Philosophy

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 48 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £36 (45 days, 93.8%)

Price range: £36 - £38

Price levels: 2 different prices over 48 days

Description

How should our most intimate personal relationships be governed in a liberal society? Should the state encourage a particular model of family life, or support individuals in their pursuit of personal happiness? To what extent do people have the right to shape the lives of their offspring? This book examines the questions at the heart of family law, rethinking the ideas that shape our understanding of the family as a social unit, its purpose, and the obligations and rights that belong to family members. The book explores how the governance of personal relationships has depended on the exercise of power, from the traditional assumptions of patriarchy, where the male head of the family enjoyed full control over his dependents and descendents, to the ideology of welfarism, where state institutions protect the interests of the vulnerable at the expense of their close relations. Emerging from these conflicting ideologies comes today's rights-based culture, where traditional expectations for behavior within a family sit within a new emphasis on the ability of minorities and traditional dependents to determine the shape of their own lives. Against this background of shifting power relations, the book explores the interrelationship between the legal regulation of people's personal lives and the values of friendship, truth, respect and responsibility. In doing this, a variety of controversial issues are examined in the light of those values: including the legal regulation of gay and unmarried heterosexual relationships; freedom of procreation; state supervision over the exercise of parenthood; the role of fault in divorce law; the way parenthood is allocated; the rights and responsibilities of parents to control their children; the place of religion in the family; the rights of separated partners regarding property and of separated parents regarding their children. Throughout, the book offers a new picture of the intimacy at t

Product Specifications

Brand: Oxford University Press
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0199535426
Category: Books > Subjects > Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences > Academic Philosophy
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 25 February 2008
Listed Since: 27 July 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

About as cheap as it gets — within 5% of the all-time low it hit 3 months ago.

Oxford University Press Family Law and Personal Life

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Gender Perceptions and the Law (Routledge Revivals)

Routledge - Same-Sex Relationships, Law and Social Change

Courting Change: Queer Parents, Judges, and the Transformation of American Family Law

Constitutional Courts, Gay Rights and Sexual Orientation Equality: 14 (Hart Studies in Comparative Public Law)

Our Families, Our Values: Snapshots of Queer Kinship (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies)

Same-Sex Couples before National, Supranational and International Jurisdictions - Springer

Queer Families, Common Agendas: Gay People, Lesbians, and Family Values (Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services Series, Vol. 10, No. 1)

Political Institutions and Lesbian and Gay Rights in the United States and Canada (Routledge Studies in North American Politics)

The Lesbian and Gay Movements: Assimilation or Liberation?

Family Life in The Middle Ages (Family Life through History)

Family Communication: Second Edition (Routledge Communication Series)

Sex and Privacy in American Law (W.B. Sheridan Law Books)

Unlocking Human Rights (Unlocking the Law)

Routledge Handbook of Family Law and Policy (Routledge Handbooks in Law)

Social Work Practice with Children and Families: A Family Health Approach (Haworth Health and Social Policy)

Abnormal Psychology in a Changing World with CD-ROM: United States Edition

Sons Talk About Their Gay Fathers: Life Curves - Routledge

Fatherhood for Gay Men: An Emotional and Practical Guide to Becoming a Gay Dad (Race and Politics)

Homophobias: Lust and Loathing across Time and Space

European Family Law Volume III: Family Law in a European Perspective: 3

Homosexuality and Family Relations: 0014 (Marriage & Family Review Series)

Same-Sex Domestic Violence: Strategies for Change (SAGE Series on Violence against Women)

Same-Sex Domestic Violence: Strategies for Change (SAGE Series on Violence against Women)

Social Science of Same-Sex Marriage - LGBT Relationships Era

About as cheap as it gets — within 5% of the all-time low it hit 3 months ago.

Oxford University Press Family Law and Personal Life

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Gender Perceptions and the Law (Routledge Revivals)

Routledge - Same-Sex Relationships, Law and Social Change

Courting Change: Queer Parents, Judges, and the Transformation of American Family Law

Constitutional Courts, Gay Rights and Sexual Orientation Equality: 14 (Hart Studies in Comparative Public Law)

Our Families, Our Values: Snapshots of Queer Kinship (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies)

Same-Sex Couples before National, Supranational and International Jurisdictions - Springer

Queer Families, Common Agendas: Gay People, Lesbians, and Family Values (Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services Series, Vol. 10, No. 1)

Political Institutions and Lesbian and Gay Rights in the United States and Canada (Routledge Studies in North American Politics)

The Lesbian and Gay Movements: Assimilation or Liberation?

Family Life in The Middle Ages (Family Life through History)

Family Communication: Second Edition (Routledge Communication Series)

Sex and Privacy in American Law (W.B. Sheridan Law Books)

Unlocking Human Rights (Unlocking the Law)

Routledge Handbook of Family Law and Policy (Routledge Handbooks in Law)

Social Work Practice with Children and Families: A Family Health Approach (Haworth Health and Social Policy)

Abnormal Psychology in a Changing World with CD-ROM: United States Edition

Sons Talk About Their Gay Fathers: Life Curves - Routledge

Fatherhood for Gay Men: An Emotional and Practical Guide to Becoming a Gay Dad (Race and Politics)

Homophobias: Lust and Loathing across Time and Space

European Family Law Volume III: Family Law in a European Perspective: 3

Homosexuality and Family Relations: 0014 (Marriage & Family Review Series)

Same-Sex Domestic Violence: Strategies for Change (SAGE Series on Violence against Women)

Same-Sex Domestic Violence: Strategies for Change (SAGE Series on Violence against Women)

Social Science of Same-Sex Marriage - LGBT Relationships Era