2013-09-192013-09-192009http://hdl.handle.net/11212/950http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID1586031_code939580.pdf?abstractid=1586031&mirid=1This is the Introduction to a special issue of the HOUSTON LAW REVIEW that was the outgrowth of a live symposium in November of 2008 on Feminist Jurisprudence and Child-Centered Jurisprudence: Exploring the Connections and Tensions, (46 HOU.L.REV.671 (2009)).This Introduction puts theories of feminist and child-centered jurisprudence into historical perspective. It sketches the origins and development of feminist jurisprudence, starting with the nineteenth-century common law of the family and the doctrine of the separate spheres, proceeding to the critique of those positions developed by the first wave of feminism before and after the Civil War.Child welfareFamilyLawText