{"id":66,"date":"2010-04-07T09:11:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T14:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/04\/07\/cornell-prof-cynthia-bowman-on-law-and-cohabitation\/"},"modified":"2010-04-07T09:11:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T14:11:44","slug":"cornell-prof-cynthia-bowman-on-law-and-cohabitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/04\/07\/cornell-prof-cynthia-bowman-on-law-and-cohabitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornell Prof. Cynthia Bowman on law and cohabitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2010\/04\/c-bowman-book.jpg\" title=\"Cynthia Bowman Unmarried Couples, Law, &amp; Public Policy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2010\/04\/c-bowman-book.jpg\" alt=\"Cynthia Bowman Unmarried Couples, Law, &amp; Public Policy\" align=\"left\" height=\"162\" width=\"162\" \/><\/a>In honor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawschool.cornell.edu\/\" title=\"Cornell Law School\">Cornell Law School<\/a> Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawschool.cornell.edu\/faculty\/bio.cfm?id=158\" title=\"Cynthia Grant Bowman bio\">Cynthia Grant Bowman<\/a>&#8216;s new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/cornell.worldcat.org\/title\/unmarried-couples-law-and-public-policy\/oclc\/456421013&amp;referer=brief_results\" title=\"catalog record\">Unmarried Couples, Law, and Public Policy<\/a>, today we are highlighting a few of her other publications. In addition to a degree in law, Professor Bowman earned a Ph.D in political science, and she brings an interdisciplinary approach to her analysis of topics such as <a href=\"http:\/\/library2.lawschool.cornell.edu\/insiteasp\/public\/toparc.asp?style=st_browse&amp;topic=Family%20Law\" title=\"family law\">family law<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/library2.lawschool.cornell.edu\/insiteasp\/public\/toparc.asp?style=st_browse&amp;topic=Women%20and%20the%20Law\" title=\"women and the law\">feminist jurisprudence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Bowman studied the relationship between law and cohabitation&#8211;and especially its impact on low-income women&#8211;for many years before writing this book:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/library2.lawschool.cornell.edu\/hein\/Bowman%20Cynthia%209%20J.L.%20&amp;%20Fam.%20Stud.%201%202007.pdf\" title=\"link to article\">Social Science and Legal Policy: The Case of Heterosexual Cohabitation<\/a>, 9 <a href=\"http:\/\/cornell.worldcat.org\/title\/journal-of-law-family-studies\/oclc\/60625037&amp;referer=brief_results\" title=\"catalog record\">Journal of Law &amp; Family Studies<\/a> 1 (2007) is an earlier, less developed version of her recent book that examines data showing the growth in heterosexual cohabitation and argues for the extension of government benefits of marriage to the many low-income women and children involved in these relationships.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/heinonline.org\/HOL\/Page?collection=journals&amp;handle=hein.journals\/lawpol26&amp;id=125#125\" title=\"article link\">Legal Treatment of Cohabitation in the United States<\/a>, 26 <a href=\"http:\/\/cornell.worldcat.org\/title\/law-policy\/oclc\/40342003&amp;referer=brief_results\" title=\"catalog record\">Law &amp; Policy<\/a> 119 (2004), analyzes the various legal approaches to heterosexual and homosexual cohabitation taken by the 50 U.S. states.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more of Professor Bowman&#8217;s writings, see her <a href=\"http:\/\/library2.lawschool.cornell.edu\/facbib\/faculty.asp?facid=89\" title=\"Faculty publications page Cynthia Bowman\">faculty publications page<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/scholarship.law.cornell.edu\/\" title=\"Scholarship @ Cornell Law\">Scholarship@Cornell Law<\/a> online <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/02\/19\/three-good-reasons-to-visit-scholarshipcornell-law\/\" title=\"blog post about Scholarship@Cornell Law\">repository<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Cornell Law School Professor Cynthia Grant Bowman&#8216;s new book, Unmarried Couples, Law, and Public Policy, today we are highlighting a few of her other publications. In addition to a degree in law, Professor Bowman earned a Ph.D in political science, and she brings an interdisciplinary approach to her analysis of topics such <a href='https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/04\/07\/cornell-prof-cynthia-bowman-on-law-and-cohabitation\/'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[302],"tags":[313],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}