The Ties That Bind (Routledge Revivals) : Law, Marriage and the Reproduction of Patriarchal Relations (Hardcover)

List of tables;  List of abbreviations;  Acknowledgements;  Introduction;  Part I: Theoretical issues  1. Legal regulation or male control  Part II: Historical issues  2. Marriage, divorce and the family in the 1950s  3. Family legislation and social change in the 1960s  4. Judge-made law in the 1960s  5. Family law after the decade of reform  6. Progress and regress in the 1970s  Part III: Practical issues  7. Doing the research: practices and dilemmas  8. Solicitors and the legal management of marital breakdown  9. Magistrates and marriage  10. Law, policy and feminism;  Postscript;  Appendices;  Notes