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What Is a Family?: Law and Regulation in a Transdisciplinary Context

by Martha Albertson Fineman

Family life and the limits of legal categories

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Family life and the limits of legal categories

This collection examines how law defines and regulates family amid changing forms of kinship. Contributors bring perspectives from law, psychology, economics, family science and history to consider how legal systems respond to, resist or incorporate family arrangements including non-marital partnerships and trans families. The interdisciplinary structure makes the relationship between lived family realities and legal recognition the book’s central subject, with social policy also in view. It offers a framework for exploring how regulation and family life shape one another, rather than treating family law as a question of legal doctrine alone.

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  • Readers studying family law and legal regulation
  • Those interested in social policy and changing forms of kinship
  • Researchers seeking interdisciplinary perspectives on family life

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Family law and regulationKinship and family diversityLegal recognitionInterdisciplinary approaches to family life

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Available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

How families are formed, lived and understood has shifted dramatically--yet legal frameworks often still reflect outdated norms. This collection brings together a diverse team of international contributors to explore what a family is through a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including law, psychology, economics, family science and history, inviting transdisciplinary reflections on family regulation.

By examining how legal systems respond to, resist, or incorporate diverse family forms, from non-marital partnerships to trans families, the book reveals the tensions between lived realities and legal recognition. Offering fresh insight into how regulation shapes and is shaped by evolving family life, this book is essential for scholars interested in family law, social policy and the changing dynamics of kinship.

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