Mothers in law : feminist theory and the legal regulation of motherhood / edited by Martha Albertson Fineman and Isabel Karpin.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
1995.
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| Series: | Gender and culture.
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Table of 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.