Towards Divorce Law Reform

1967 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 91 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. R. McGregor ◽  
S. P. C. K. ◽  
Law Reform Commission
Keyword(s):  
Law Reform ◽  
Divorce Law

Political Writings

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone de Beauvoir
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Divorce Law ◽  
Sexual Equality ◽  
Complex Thinking ◽  
French Intellectuals ◽  
Freedom Fighter

This book offers an abundance of newly translated essays by the author that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of her political philosophy. The book documents and contextualizes the author’s thinking, writing, public statements, and activities in the services of causes like French divorce law reform and the rights of women in the Iranian Revolution. It traces nearly three decades of her leftist political engagement, from exposés of conditions in fascist Spain and Portugal in 1945 and hard-hitting attacks on right-wing French intellectuals in the 1950s, to the 1962 defense of an Algerian freedom fighter, Djamila Boupacha, and a 1975 article arguing for what is now called the “two-state solution” in Israel. Together these texts prefigure the author’s later feminist activism and provide a new interpretive context for reading her multi-volume autobiography, while also shedding new light on French intellectual history during the turbulent era of decolonization. The book provides new insights into the author’s complex thinking and illuminates her historic role in linking the movements for sexual freedom, sexual equality, homosexual rights, and women’s rights in France.

The Impact of No-Fault Divorce Law Reform on Divorce in American States

1978 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald C. Wright ◽  
Dorothy M. Stetson
Keyword(s):  
Law Reform ◽  
Divorce Law ◽  
American States ◽  
The Impact

DIVORCE LAW REFORM?

1956 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 573-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Kahn-Freund
Keyword(s):  
Law Reform ◽  
Divorce Law

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret A. Simons
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Legal Reform ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
The Political ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Political Opposition ◽  
Divorce Law ◽  
The Press ◽  
Socialist Government

This introductory chapter provides a background of Simone de Beauvoir's feminism. As the political opposition hardened and the Women's Liberation Movement (MLF) matured in the 1970s, Beauvoir put “her notoriety and her connections at the service of this movement of young rabble-rousers without ever claiming to lead it in any certain direction.” Beauvoir supported those feminists interested in legal reform through the creation of a League of Women's Rights and those “who preferred to fight sexism by denouncing it with perspicacity and humor.” Moreover, she lent her support to a successful campaign for divorce law reform and an unsuccessful one for a law banning sexism, which won the support of the Secretary for Women's Rights in the new Socialist government in 1981, but failed after vehement opposition from advertisers and the press. In 1979, Beauvoir joined an international campaign—also unsuccessful—to defend the rights of women in the Iranian Revolution.

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