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Mothers in law : feminist theory and the legal regulation of motherhood
- Title
- Mothers in law : feminist theory and the legal regulation of motherhood / edited by Martha Albertson Fineman and Isabel Karpin.
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, 1995.
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- Description
- xiii, 398 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This collection of essays presents an examination of many facets of the status of motherhood and the position of mothers in our society. The unifying theme of the contributions is that mothers must often operate within legal constraints that contradict behavioural norms.
- Series Statement
- Gender and culture
- Uniform Title
- Gender and culture.
- Subject
- Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > Congresses
- Mothers > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > Congresses
- Feminist jurisprudence > Congresses
- Feminist jurisprudence
- Mothers > Legal status, laws, etc
- Women > Legal status, laws, etc
- Feminismus
- Mutterschaft
- Recht
- Aufsatzsammlung
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Congress
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Actes de congrès.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 362-394).
- Contents
- Mothers, daughters, and autobiography : maternal legacies and cultural criticism / Nancy K. Miller -- Mother from child : perspectives on separation and abandonment / Carol Sanger -- Abortion as a sex equality right : its basis in feminist theory / Reva B. Siegel -- The legal construction of "mother" / M.M. Slaughter -- Mother : the legal domestication of lesbian existence / Ruthann Robson -- Complicating the ideology of motherhood : child welfare law and First Nation women / Marlee Kline -- Postmodernism, legal ethics, and representation of "bad mothers" / Marie Ashe -- Fresh or frozen : lesbian mothers, sperm donors, and limited fathers / Kate Harrison -- Images of mothers in poverty discourse / Martha A. Fineman -- Racism and patriarchy in the meaning of motherhood / Dorothy E. Roberts -- A "tangle of pathology" : racial myth and the New Jersey Family Development Act / Nina Perales -- "Making sense" : notes for studying Black teen mothers / Barbara Omolade -- Challenging "hidden" assumptions : (women) lawyers and family life / Mary Jane Mossman -- Child custody and child neglect : parenthood in legal practice and culture / Ann Shalleck -- Older mothers and adult children : toward an alternative construction of care / Joanna K. Weinberg -- Reproductive technologies, surrogacy arrangements, and the politics of motherhood / Laura R. Woliver.
- ISBN
- 0231096801
- 9780231096805
- 023109681X
- 9780231096812
- LCCN
- 94047019
- OCLC
- ocm31782855
- 31782855
- SCSB-9011696
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library