Introduction Jennifer Hickey Part I. Gender Equality Introduction Deborah Dinner 1. The Equality Ideal
2. Challenging Law, Establishing Differences
3. Equality Discourse and Economic Decisions Made at Divorce
4. The Individualization of the Family: Child Advocacy
5. The Illusion of Equality Part II. The Sexual Family Introduction Teemu Ruskola 6. The End of Family Law? Intimacy in the Twenty-First Century
7. A Claim for Justice Part III. Dependency Introduction Michael Thomson 8. A Dystopian Fantasy
9. Dependency and Social Debt: Cracking the Foundational Myths
10. The New Tokenism Part IV. Autonomy Introduction Martha McCluskey 11. Equality and Autonomy
12. Posing the Philosophy for an Active State
13. What Place for Family Privacy? Part V. Vulnerability Introduction Aziza Ahmed 14. Vulnerability and Inevitable Inequality
15. Equality and Difference ? The Restrained State
16. The “Still Face” of a Compassionately-Challenged Society
17. Injury in the Unresponsive State
18. Vulnerability and Social Justice
19. Conclusion: Resilience is the Watchword Lua Kamal Yuille Afterword Atieno Mboya Samandari