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Mothers in law : feminist theory and the legal regulation of motherhood / edited by Martha Albertson Fineman and Isabel Karpin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gender and culturePublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 1995.Description: xiii, 398 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0231096801 (cl.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • KF478.A5 M68 1995
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.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks KF478.A5M68 1995 1 Available 33710000761556

Includes bibliographical references (p. 362-394).

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.

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