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Locked In and Locked Out: Reflections in the History of Divorce Law Reform in New York State

Abstract: ions; we understand them as real world entities.\"); see also P. BERGER & B. BERGER, THE WAR OVER THE FAMILY: CAPTURING THE MIDDLE GROUND (1983) (analyzing family as an ideological battleground). 305. Lerner, Female Dependency in Context: Some Theoretical and Technical Considerations, 53 AM. J. ORTHo. PSYCHIATRY 697-99 (Oct. 1983). Lerner maintains that psychology has failed to take into account the structural or contextual factors which evoke women's dependent behavior, has maintained a dignified fraternal silence regarding the obvious facts that men have dependency needs (the fulfilling of which has been a role assigned to women), and has failed to appreciate the protective and systems-maintaining function for significant others of women's displays of passive-dependency. Our gender arrangements as well as our very definitions of \"femininity\" contain an important metacommunication which remains an unconscious guiding rule for many women. The message is that the weaker sex must protect the stronger sex from recognizing the strength of the weaker sex lest the stronger sex feel weakened by the strength of the