The Illusion of Equality: The Rhetoric and Reality of Divorce Reform

by Martha Albertson Fineman

Book Overview

How do "no-fault," "gender-neutral" divorce reforms actually harm the lives of women and children they are designed to protect? Focusing on the language and symbols of reform, Martha Fineman argues that by advocating measures based on equality of treatment rather than of outcome, liberal feminists disregarded the socioeconomic factors that simultaneously place women at a disadvantage in the market and favor their taking on primary domestic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226249565
• ISBN13: 9780226249568
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"