First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Kinship, Law and the Unexpected takes up an issue at the heart of studies of society - the way we use relationships to uncover relationships.

Offering exceptional coverage of all key family law principles, this book also explores the theories, debates and ethical dilemmas which underpin the subject ensuring you have the knowledge required to critique the existing law and evaluate ...

"Cases and materials on family law for law students taking a family law course"--

This book provides a summary of these discoveries and a discussion of how modern birds evolved from fearsome meat-eating dinosaurs akin to the celebrated Velociraptor.

"Stephen Vider considers how the meanings of domesticity shifted for gay men and lesbians from the late 1960s to early 1980s, from a site of supposed isolation or deviance, to a source of identity, community, and pleasure.

Focusing on how women, peasants and orphans responded to Bolshevk attempts to remake the family, this text reveals how, by 1936, legislation designed to liberate women had given way to increasingly conservative solutions strengthening ...

Among the characteristics that make this text the perfect choice for teaching California family law: A practical, straightforward approach designed to teach the basics to paralegal students.

Family, law, and colonial modernity in Thailand -- Transnational justice -- Colonial law and Buddhist modernity in the Malay Muslim south -- The imperialism of monogamy in family law -- Crisis of wifedom -- Nationalism and male sexuality -- ...

The Second Edition of this successful text, An Introduction to the American Legal System, continues to offer an accessible, practical overview of the American Legal System.