TY - BOOK AU - Miles,Joanna AU - Monk,Daniel AU - Probert,Rebecca TI - Fifty years of the Divorce Reform Act 1969 SN - 9781509947898 U1 - 346.166041 PY - 2022/// CY - Oxford PB - Hart Publishing KW - Great Britain KW - Divorce Reform Act 1969 KW - Divorce KW - Law and legislation KW - History KW - Law reform KW - Domestic relations N1 - I. Introduction --; 'Irretrievably broken'? Introducing the life-story of the Divorce Reform Act 1969; Joanna Miles, Daniel Monk and Rebecca Probert --; Divorces by fact proven over the past half century in England and Wales : the historical context, statistical trends and future prospects; John Haskey --; II. Background --; Dynamic impasse : divorce and British film in the mid-twentieth century /; James Brown --; Feminism, property and divorce law reform in the 1960s; Rosemary Auchmuty --; Putting asunder – reappraised; Rosie Sinclair --; Behind Casanova's Charter : Edith Summerskill, divorce and the deserted wife; Sharon Thompson --; III. Telling stories about divorce and marriage --; Divorced from reality? Literary depictions of the legal process for ending a marriage, 1971–2021; Rebecca Probert --; Judging matrimonial behaviour; Joanna Miles --; Telling tales? Establishing irretrievable breakdown under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973; Liz Trinder --; Royal divorces and the remaking of marriage and monarchy; Daniel Monk --; IV. Contemporary perspectives and challenges --; Divorced from human rights? English divorce law under human rights scrutiny; Carmen Draghici --; British Muslim communities, Islamic divorce and English family law; Samia Bano --; Dissolution, divorce and changing practices of commitment; Brian Heaphy and James Hodgson ER -