The Failure of Child Support: Gendered Systems of Inaccessibility, Inaction and Irresponsibility - Couverture rigide

Cook, Kay

 
9781447348863: The Failure of Child Support: Gendered Systems of Inaccessibility, Inaction and Irresponsibility
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1447348869 ISBN 13 : 9781447348863
Editeur : Policy Press, 2022

Synopsis

Drawing on interviews with informants from a diverse range of 16 countries, including the US, the UK, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Peru, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and Nigeria, this book examines how child support systems often fail to transfer payments from separated fathers to mothers and their children. It lays out how these systems are structured in ways that render them ineffective, while positioning women as responsible for their failures.

The book charts the demise of child support as a feminist intervention, resituating it as gendered governance practice that operates by making the system inaccessible, failing to deliver outcomes, and condoning fathers' irresponsibility. It identifies how the gender order is entrenched through child support failure and offers possibilities for feminist reform.

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À propos de l'auteur

Kay Cook is a Sociology Professor and Associate Dean Research in the School of Social Sciences, Media, Film and Education at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.

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Éditeur
Policy Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1447348869
ISBN 13 
9781447348863
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
190
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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