Fragmenting fatherhood : a socio-legal study /
Richard Collier and Sally Sheldon.
- Oxford : Hart, 2008.
- viii, 274 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-274).
1.Introducing fatherhood and the law -- 2.Fatherhod and \'natural\' reproduction -- 3.Fatherhod and assisted reproduction -- 4.Marital fatherhood -- Post-separation fatherhood -- 6.Unmarried fatherhood -- 7.Fragmenting fatherhood.
This title provides the first sustained engagement with the way that fatherhood has been understood, constructed and regulated within English law. Drawing on a range of disparate legal provisions, and material from diverse disciplines, it sketches the major contours of the figure of the father as drawn in law and social policy.