What is a Family?

Alice Margaria is an Assistant Professor in Law and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Program Human Reproduction Reloaded at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Claire Fenton-Glynn is a Professor of Law at the University of Monash, Australia.

• Foreword - Martha Albertson Fineman1. Introduction – Claire Fenton-Glynn and Alice MargariaPart 1: Unsettling Traditional Paradigms2. What Is a Family? A Feminist Family Science Perspective – Katherine R Allen3. The Legal Family – Alan Brown4. The Family and Its Disruption by Transgender Families – a Study of the Cases ‘Nigel and Beth’ and ‘Christina and Kimberly’ – Claire JenkinsPart 2: Developing Regulation of Adult Relationships5. Marriage and Family Formation at the Intersection of Law and History – Mary Jo Maynes6. What Is a ‘European Family’? – Jens M Scherpe7. Why Should the State Recognize Non-Conjugal Unions? An Analysis of the Debate Around Their Legal Recognition – Nausica Palazzo and Daniel CardosoPart 3: Empirical Approaches to Defining Families8. What Is a Family? A Developmental Psychology Perspective – Kate Ellis-Davies and Sarah Foley9. A Feminist Economist’s Perspective on Marriage Laws – Shoshana Grossbard10. 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 YeungPart 4: Rethinking the Family of Law11. The Legal Family as a Child Development Incubator – Noam Peleg12. From Folkhemmet to Post-Welfare Sweden: Rethinking Care and Dependency in a Neoliberal Context – Helena Moradi13. Loneliness and Care: Rethinking the Role of Family Law – Jonathan Herring

"A hugely informative and authoritative exploration of the interplay between family law and family life that foregrounds real families. Brilliant!" Professor Susan Golombok, University of Cambridge