Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. Contributors xi
5. INTRODUCTION
6. 1. Challenging the Public/Private Divide: An Overview 3
7. PART 1. THE ROLE OF THE STATE: SOME HISTORIES
8. 2. Restructuring Public and Private: Women's Paid and Unpaid Work 37
9. 3. A Little Sex Can Be a Dangerous Thing: Regulating Sexuality, Venereal Disease, and Reproduction in British Columbia, 1919-1945 62
10. 4. Sounds of Silence: The Public/Private Dichotomy, Violence, and Aboriginal Women 87
11. PART 2. FAMILY, HOME, AND WORK
12. 5. Who Pays for Caring for Children? Public Policy and the Devaluation of Women's Work 113
13. 6. Across the Home/Work Divide: Homework in Garment Manufacture and the Failure of Employment Regulation 144
14. 7. Some Mothers Are Better Than Others: A Re-examination of Maternity Benefits 168
15. 8. Balancing Acts: Career and Family among Lawyers 195
16. PART 3. LEGAL REGULATION O F MOTHERHOOD: CHILD CUSTODY AND CHILD WELFARE
17. 9. A Jury Dressed in Medical White and Judicial Black': Mothers with Mental Health Histories in Child Welfare and Custody 227
18. 10. Looking beyond Tyabji: Employed Mothers, Lifestyles, and Child Custody Law 253
19. 11. Lesbians, Child Custody, and the Long Lingering Gaze of the Law 280
20. PART 4. CURRENT CHALLENGES RESTRUCTURING, PRIVATIZATION, AND GLOBALIZATION
21. 12. Public Taxes, Privatizing Effects, and Gender Inequality 307
22. 13. Blue Meanies in Alberta: Tory Tactics and the Privatization of Child Welfare 330
23. 14. Going Global: Feminist Theory, International Law, and the Public/Private Divide 360
24. Index 385