Rethinking Law and Fatherhood: Male Subjectivity in the Film A Perfect World

Sept. 1, 1999

[1] Fathers and fatherhood have long played an important role in the thinking and theorizing about law. From Abraham and Isaac to Supreme Court cases, like the now famous DeShaney v. Winnebago, 1 it seems that everywhere we turn law is commanding fathers or presenting itself in a fatherly way...