Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten

This book provides new, feminist perspectives on famous family law cases that span generations. The chapters take court decisions and rewrite them with feminist ideas in mind. Each rewritten opinion is penned by a leading scholar who relied only on materials available at the time of the original decision. The decisions address topics such as the criminalization of polygamy, intimate partner violence as a ground for asylum, the legality of gestational surrogacy, the rights of cohabitants, discrimination against transgender parents, immigration rules governing non-citizen parents, and child welfare and child support systems, among others. Each opinion is accompanied by a commentary that explains the original opinion as well as its contemporary relevance, and each commentary also is authored by a respected scholar. The combination of a rewritten opinion and its commentary provides an in-depth examination of the most important topics in family law.
Reimagined court opinions that address iconic issues in family law from a feminist perspective with timely commentaries on those issues.
Rachel Rebouché is Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law. She is an author on casebooks in family law and women and the law. She has also co-authored Governance Feminism: An Introduction and co-edited Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field. She has published on family law, health law, and reproductive rights in various journals and is currently working on a book on reproductive justice.