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Mothers on trial : the battle for children and custody / Phyllis Chesler.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1986.Description: xviii, 651 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0070107017
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 346.7301/7 347.30617 19
LOC classification:
  • KF547 .C465 1986
Contents:
Part One: Mothers and custody -- 1. An historical overview -- 2. A contemporary overview -- 3. What is a fit mother and father? An unfit mother and father? Who decides? -- 4. Do "good enough" mothers still lose custody of their children in North America today? The results of an original study -- Part Two: The study in depth, I. What "crimes" do "good enough" mothers commit that result in maternal custodial victimization? -- 5. The "sexual" mother: Anna Karenina today -- 6. The "uppity" mother -- 7. The lesbian mother -- Part Three: The study in depth, II. What crimes are committed against "good enough" mothers that result in maternal custodial victimization? -- 8. The poor mother -- 9. The mother married to a violent man -- 10. Paternal brainwashing -- 11. The "voluntarily" non-custodial mother -- 12. The price of battle: Mothers encounter the psychological law -- Part Four: Maternal custody and the male state -- 13. The mother-lawyer relationship -- 14. The mother-judge and the father-judge relationships -- 15. Fetal politics -- Who gets custody of the "test-tube" baby?: The reproductive rights of husbands, unwed fathers, sperm donors -- and of women -- 16. Mothers in prison -- 17. Mothers as prisoners of patriarchy: A comparison of contemporary custody trials and witchcraft trials -- 18. The international custody situation -- Part Five: The mothers speak -- 19. Mother's wisdom: Philosophical and political perspectives on having and losing children -- 20. Children's rights -- 21. Upon divorce -- 22. Mothers' voices, written on the wind.
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Bibliography: p. 457-621.

Includes index.

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Part One: Mothers and custody -- 1. An historical overview -- 2. A contemporary overview -- 3. What is a fit mother and father? An unfit mother and father? Who decides? -- 4. Do "good enough" mothers still lose custody of their children in North America today? The results of an original study -- Part Two: The study in depth, I. What "crimes" do "good enough" mothers commit that result in maternal custodial victimization? -- 5. The "sexual" mother: Anna Karenina today -- 6. The "uppity" mother -- 7. The lesbian mother -- Part Three: The study in depth, II. What crimes are committed against "good enough" mothers that result in maternal custodial victimization? -- 8. The poor mother -- 9. The mother married to a violent man -- 10. Paternal brainwashing -- 11. The "voluntarily" non-custodial mother -- 12. The price of battle: Mothers encounter the psychological law -- Part Four: Maternal custody and the male state -- 13. The mother-lawyer relationship -- 14. The mother-judge and the father-judge relationships -- 15. Fetal politics -- Who gets custody of the "test-tube" baby?: The reproductive rights of husbands, unwed fathers, sperm donors -- and of women -- 16. Mothers in prison -- 17. Mothers as prisoners of patriarchy: A comparison of contemporary custody trials and witchcraft trials -- 18. The international custody situation -- Part Five: The mothers speak -- 19. Mother's wisdom: Philosophical and political perspectives on having and losing children -- 20. Children's rights -- 21. Upon divorce -- 22. Mothers' voices, written on the wind.