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Zusatztext ...a carefully documented and rich amalgam of ideas, arguments and propositions concerning the contemporary phenomenon of fathers' rights activism…The editors suggest the volume might serve in the development of an agenda that promotes a more nuanced and rounded politics of equality than that advocated by fathers' rights organizations. It certainly makes a major contribution to that agenda. It gives us a coherent and incisive critique that represents an important marker of a defining moment in the history of family law reform strategies. Informationen zum Autor Richard Collier is Professor of Law at the University of Newcastle. Sally Sheldon is a Professor of Law at the University of Kent. Klappentext The legal status, responsibilities and rights of men who are fathers - married or unmarried, cohabiting or separated, biological or social in nature - is a topic with a long and well-documented history. Yet recent developments in a number of countries suggest a growing politicisation of the relationship between law and fatherhood. In some countries, an increasingly vocal, visible and well-organised fathers' rights movement has been credited with influencing perceptions of the politics of family justice. Fathers, it is argued, have become the new victims of family law justice systems that have swung 'too far' in favour of mothers. Armed with such claims, fathers' rights activists have set out to achieve a range of legal reforms, most notably in the areas of child support law and contact and residence rights following separation. This book presents an attempt to understand these developments. Bringing together leading international commentators it provides a careful, critical and comparative analysis of the work of fathers' rights activists, the role law has played in their campaigning, their legal strategies, their success (or otherwise) in achieving legal reform, similarities and divergences with the women's movement, and the relationship between fathers' rights movements and the societies that frame them. In addition to Collier and Sheldon, contributors include: Susan B Boyd (University of British Columbia, Canada), Jocelyn Crowley (Rutgers University, USA), Maria Eriksson (Goteborg University, Sweden), Keith Pringle (Aalborg University, Denmark), Helen Rhoades (Melbourne University, Australia), and Carol Smart (Manchester University, UK). Zusammenfassung This book provides a careful, critical and comparative analysis of the work, campaigning and legal strategies of fathers' rights activists. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Fathers' Rights, Fatherhood and Law Reform—International PerspectivesRichard Collier and Sally Sheldon2 'Robbed of their Families'? Fathers' Rights Discourses inCanadian Parenting Law Reform ProcessesSusan B Boyd3 'The Outlaw Fathers Fight Back': Fathers' Rights Groups,Fathers 4 Justice and the Politics of Family LawReform—Reflections on the UK ExperienceRichard Collier4 Adopting 'Equality Tools' from the Toolboxes of their Predecessors:The Fathers' Rights Movement in the United StatesJocelyn Elise Crowley5 Gender Equality, Child Welfare and Fathers' Rights in SwedenMaria Eriksson and Keith Pringle6 Yearning For Law: Fathers' Groups and Family LawReform in AustraliaHelen Rhoades...
