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Masculinity, law, and the family / Richard Collier.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 331 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0203305299
  • 9780203305294
  • 020342154X
  • 9780203421543
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Masculinity, law, and the family.DDC classification:
  • 346.7301/3 347.30613 20
LOC classification:
  • K645 .C65 1995eb
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Introduction: on law and masculinity. The sociology of masculinity: a context. Theorising law and masculinity. Towards a study of law and masculinity: concluding remarks -- 2. Theorising masculinity and the family. 'Critical' family law. Defining the 'family'. Functionalism. The public/private dichotomy. Familialism: rethinking law, power and the family -- Conclusions: on method, masculinity and law -- 3. Law, sex and masculinity. The legal construction of homosexuality. The homosexual personage and the emergence of (hetero) masculinity in law. Scientific 'fact' and the legal problem of transsexualism. Sex, gender and marriage -- Conclusions: the sexual basis of hegemonic masculinity and marriage -- 4. 'Love without fear': representations of male heterosexuality in law. A context: sexuality and society. The legal construction of sexual intercourse. The social and legal construction of male sexuality.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-321) and index.

1. Introduction: on law and masculinity. The sociology of masculinity: a context. Theorising law and masculinity. Towards a study of law and masculinity: concluding remarks -- 2. Theorising masculinity and the family. 'Critical' family law. Defining the 'family'. Functionalism. The public/private dichotomy. Familialism: rethinking law, power and the family -- Conclusions: on method, masculinity and law -- 3. Law, sex and masculinity. The legal construction of homosexuality. The homosexual personage and the emergence of (hetero) masculinity in law. Scientific 'fact' and the legal problem of transsexualism. Sex, gender and marriage -- Conclusions: the sexual basis of hegemonic masculinity and marriage -- 4. 'Love without fear': representations of male heterosexuality in law. A context: sexuality and society. The legal construction of sexual intercourse. The social and legal construction of male sexuality.

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