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LIVING APART TOGETHER

Legal Protections for a New Form of Family CYNTHIA GRANT BOWMAN

Argues for legal reforms to protect couples who live apart but perform many of the functions of a family

Living Apart Together is an in-depth look at a new way of being a couple and “doing family”—living apart together (LAT)—in which committed couples maintain separate residences and finances. In Cynthia Grant Bowman’s own 2016 national survey, 9% of respondents reported maintaining committed relationships while living apart, typically spending the weekend together, socializing together, taking vacations together, and looking after one another in illness, but maintaining financial independence. She finds that while these living arrangements are more common than previously believed, there are virtually no legal protections for the people involved. Bowman concludes by proposing a number of legal reforms to support the caregiving functions LAT partners perform for each other. Living Apart Together makes an important case for formal recognition of this growing but largely overlooked family structure.

Cynthia Grant Bowman is the Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. December 2020 224 pages • 6 x 9 13 black & white illustrations Cloth • $40.00S(£33.00) 9781479891047 In Families, Law and Society

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DIVORCE IN CHINA

Institutional Constraints and Gendered Outcomes XIN HE

Why are women still at a disadvantage in Chinese divorce courts?

Despite the increase of gender consciousness in Chinese society and a trove of legislation to protect women, why are Chinese women still disadvantaged in divorce courts? Xin He argues that institutional constraints to which judges are subject, a factor largely ignored by existing literature, play a crucial role. This book is the only study of Chinese divorce cases based on fieldwork and interviews conducted inside Chinese courtrooms over the course of a decade. With an unusual vantage point, He offers a rare and unfiltered view of the operation of Chinese courts in the authoritarian regime. Through a socio-legal perspective highlighting the richness, sophistication, and cutting-edge nature of the research, Divorce in China is as much an account of Chinese courts in action as a social ethnography of China in the midst of momentous social change.

January 2021 304 pages • 6 x 9 15 black & white illustrations Cloth • $65.00X(£54.00) 9781479805532

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January 2021 224 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $26.00S(£20.99) 9781479806065 Cloth • 9781479830329

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NEW IN PAPERBACK

November 2020 304 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $22.00S(£17.99) 9781479805990 Cloth • 9781479865963

Law MULTIRACIALS AND CIVIL RIGHTS

Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination TANYA KATERÍ HERNÁNDEZ

Narratives of mixed-race people bringing claims of racial discrimination in court, illuminating traditional understandings of civil rights law

As the mixed-race population in the United States grows, public fascination with multiracial identity has promoted the belief that racial mixture will destroy racism. However, multiracial people still face discrimination. In Multiracials and Civil Rights, Tanya Katerí Hernández draws on a plethora of court cases to demonstrate that multiracials face the same types of discrimination as other racial groups. Hernández argues that multiracial people are primarily targeted for discrimination due to their non-whiteness, and shows how the cases highlight the need to support the existing legal structures instead of a new understanding of civil rights law. Coming at a time when explicit racism is resurfacing, Hernández’s look at multiracial discrimination cases is essential for fortifying the focus of civil rights law on racial privilege.

Tanya Katerí Hernández is the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law.

STORIES FROM TRAILBLAZING WOMEN LAWYERS

Lives in the Law JILL NORGREN

The captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern legal profession

In this book, award-winning legal historian Jill Norgren curates the oral histories of one hundred extraordinary American women lawyers who changed the profession of law. Many of these stories are being told for the first time. As adults these women were on the front lines fighting for access to law schools and good legal careers. They challenged established rules and broke the law’s glass ceiling. Norgren uses these interviews to describe the profound changes that began in the late 1960s, interweaving social and legal history with the women’s individual experiences. These are women attorneys who, in courtrooms, classrooms, government agencies, and NGOs have rattled the world with insistent and successful demands to reshape their profession and their society. They are women who brought nothing short of a revolution to the profession of law.

Jill Norgren is Professor Emerita of Political Science at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York.