Description
In nineteenth-century England, legal conceptions of work and family changed in fundamental ways. Notably, significant legal moves came into play that changed the legal understanding of the family.
Constructing the Family examines the evolution of the legal-discursive framework governing work and family relations. Luke Taylor considers the intersecting intellectual and institutional forces that contributed to the dissolution of the household, the establishment of separate spheres of work and family, and the emergence of modern legal and social ideas concerning work and family. He shows how specific legal-institutional moves contributed to the creation of the family's categorical status in the social and legal order and a distinct and exceptional body of rules - Family Law - for its governance.
Shedding light on the historical processes that contributed to the emergence of English Family Law, Constructing the Family shows how work and family became separate regulatory domains, and in so doing reveals the contingent nature of the modern legal family.
About the Author
Luke Taylor is an assistant professor in the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Book Information
ISBN 9781487546526
Author Luke Taylor
Format Hardback
Page Count 424
Imprint University of Toronto Press
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Weight(grams) 740g
Dimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 33mm
