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Book Reviews : The Neutered Mother, the Sexual Family, and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies. By Martha Albertson Fineman. New York: Routledge, 1995, ...

Book Reviews : The Neutered Mother, the Sexual Family, and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies. By... The Neutered the Sexual and Other Twentieth Mother, Family, Century Martha Albertson Fineman. New York: Tragedies. By Routledge, 1995, $16.95 pp., (paperback). The with the American definition of Fineman problem family, is that it focuses on adults and the sexual nature of their observes, rather than on the mother and her children. After all, relationship, is and the adult have individual dissolvable, marriage couple rights and can The core themselves. unit that needs support family legal and her children-the is the mother vertical rather than the protection not sexual affiliation. horizontal tie, biological to nur- scheme,&dquo; According Fineman’s &dquo;intimacy intergenerational and would be law. The mother-child turing privileged protected by &dquo;base around which unit would be the social and entity policy legal A man rules would be fashioned&dquo; would still be free to form a (p. 5). if sexual affiliation with the she and a mother, agreed, significant connection with her children. But and separating family sexuality would transform the basis of the functions and societal ideological role of the family. Fineman her in three Part 1 shows how presents argument parts. and social constructions of are difficult to legal concepts gender Feminist theories since the 1970s have to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work SAGE

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The Neutered the Sexual and Other Twentieth Mother, Family, Century Martha Albertson Fineman. New York: Tragedies. By Routledge, 1995, $16.95 pp., (paperback). The with the American definition of Fineman problem family, is that it focuses on adults and the sexual nature of their observes, rather than on the mother and her children. After all, relationship, is and the adult have individual dissolvable, marriage couple rights and can The core themselves. unit that needs support family legal and her children-the is the mother vertical rather than the protection not sexual affiliation. horizontal tie, biological to nur- scheme,&dquo; According Fineman’s &dquo;intimacy intergenerational and would be law. The mother-child turing privileged protected by &dquo;base around which unit would be the social and entity policy legal A man rules would be fashioned&dquo; would still be free to form a (p. 5). if sexual affiliation with the she and a mother, agreed, significant connection with her children. But and separating family sexuality would transform the basis of the functions and societal ideological role of the family. Fineman her in three Part 1 shows how presents argument parts. and social constructions of are difficult to legal concepts gender Feminist theories since the 1970s have to

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Published: Jul 1, 1997

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