1st Edition

Ageing, Gender and Family Law

256 Pages

by Routledge

254 Pages

by Routledge

254 Pages

by Routledge

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This book explores the intersecting issues relating the phenomenon of ageing to gender and family law. The latter has tended to focus mainly on family life in young and middle age; and, indeed, the issues of childhood and parenting are key in many family law texts. Family life for older members has, then, been largely neglected; addressing this neglect, the current volume explores how the issues... Read more

Introduction - Bev Clough and Jonathan Herring

PART 1
Care, Vulnerability and Age

Embracing Vulnerability in Ageing: Our Route to Flourishing? - Daniel Bedford

The Contractualistion of Care in an Aging World - Pip Coore

Ageing, vulnerability and care: a view from social gerontology - Liz Lloyd

Financial Abuse of Older Persons: A Criminal Law Perspective - Jennifer Collins

Safeguarding in Older Age - Alison Brammer

PART 2
Rights and State Institutions

Accountability, social justice and social care decision-making: Reflections on the Responsive State - Beverley Clough

Revisiting the Feminist Critique of Rights: Lessons for a New Older Persons’ Convention? - Laura Pritchard-Jones

Impoverishing care - Ann Stewart

Older prisoners, gender and family life - Susan Easton

PART 3
Relationships in Old Age

Ageing, Love and Family Law - Jonathan Herring

Which ageing ‘families’ count? Older lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and/or queer (LGBT*Q) – relational legal in/exclusions in (older age) family law - Sue Westwood