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.

"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

• 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