Publisher Description

This book provides new, feminist perspectives on famous family law cases that span generations. The chapters take court decisions and rewrite them with feminist ideas in mind. Each rewritten opinion is penned by a leading scholar who relied only on materials available at the time of the original decision. The decisions address topics such as the criminalization of polygamy, intimate partner violence as a ground for asylum, the legality of gestational surrogacy, the rights of cohabitants, discrimination against transgender parents, immigration rules governing non-citizen parents, and child welfare and child support systems, among others. Each opinion is accompanied by a commentary that explains the original opinion as well as its contemporary relevance, and each commentary also is authored by a respected scholar. The combination of a rewritten opinion and its commentary provides an in-depth examination of the most important topics in family law.

Author Biography

Rachel Rebouché is Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law. She is an author on casebooks in family law and women and the law. She has also co-authored Governance Feminism: An Introduction and co-edited Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field. She has published on family law, health law, and reproductive rights in various journals and is currently working on a book on reproductive justice.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Rachel Rebouché; 2. Reynolds v. United States, 98 U.S. 145 (1879) Marie Failinger and Laura Kessler; 3. McGuire v. McGuire, 59 N.W.2d 336 (Neb. 1953) Mary Anne Case, Martha Ertman and Zvi Triger; 4. Dandridge v. Williams, 397 U.S. 471 (1970) Maya Manian and Susan Frelich Appleton; 5. Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205 (1972) Lisa Fishbayn Joffe and Kristen Murray; 6. Marvin v. Marvin, 557 P.2d 106 (Cal. 1976) Aníbal Rosario Lebrón and Kate Sablosky Elengold; 7. Kulko v. Superior Court, 436 U.S. 84 (1978) Mary-Beth Moylan and Katherine Macfarlane; 8. Daly v. Daly, 715 P.2d 56 (Nev. 1986) Raff Donelson and Nancy Polikoff; 9. Michael H. v. Gerald D., 491 U.S. 110 (1989) Suzanne Kim and Albertina Antognini; 10. DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, 489 U.S. 189 (1989) Macarena Saez and Jessica Dixon Weaver; 11. Simeone v. Simeone, 581 A.2d 162 (Pa. 1990) Jamie Abrams and Alicia Kelly; 12. Borelli v. Brusseau, 12 Cal. App. 4th 647 (1993) June Carbone and Jo Carrillo; 13. Turner v. Rogers, 564 U.S. 431 (2011) Warren Binford and Elizabeth L. MacDowell; 14. In re T.J.S., 54 A.3d 263 (N.J. 2012) June Carbone and Seema Mohapatra; 15. Matter of A-B-, Respondent, 27 I&N Dec. 316 (A.G. 2018) Natalie Nanasi and Suzan M. Pritchett; 16. Sessions v. Morales-Santana, 2017 WL 2507339 (U.S. 2017) Cynthia Godsoe and Tracy Thomas.

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Reimagined court opinions that address iconic issues in family law from a feminist perspective with timely commentaries on those issues.

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Reimagined court opinions that address iconic issues in family law from a feminist perspective with timely commentaries on those issues.

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Law school professors and students will use this book to supplement courses in family law and feminist legal theory. Diverse scholars and researchers - interested in the intersections of family law and disciplines such as asylum law, civil procedure, surrogacy, trans identity, and others - will read this book.

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Law school professors and students will use this book to supplement courses in family law and feminist legal theory. Diverse scholars and researchers - interested in the intersections of family law and disciplines such as asylum law, civil procedure, surrogacy, trans identity, and others - will read this book.

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