Essentially a Mother

A Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy and Motherhood
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-520-38825-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 237 mm x 156 mm, Gewicht: 452 g

Essentially a Mother argues that the law of pregnancy and motherhood has been overrun by sexist ideology. Courts have held that a pregnant woman’s nine months of gestation hardly count in her claim to parent the child she bears and that a man’s brief moment of ejaculation matters more than a woman’s labor. Armed with such dubious arguments, courts have stripped women of the right to abortion, treated surrogate mothers as mere vessels, and handed biological fathers—even those who became fathers through rape—automatic rights over women and their children. In this incisive and groundbreaking book, Jennifer Hendricks argues that feminists must overthrow the skewed value system that subordinates women, devalues caregiving, and denies too many the right to parent.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hendricks, Jennifer

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht Familienrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction

PART ONE

SEX DIFFERENCE AND ACCOMMODATION
1 • Mothers at Work

2 • Fathers at Home

3 • What the Law Protects.

4 •. and Why

PART TWO

THE COLLAPSE OF THE CARETAKING
5 • Expanding Fathers’ Rights against Mothers
6 • Sidelining Inconvenient Fathers

7 • Leveling Down to Genes

PART THREE

A FEMINIST APPROACH
8 • How to Reason from the Body

9 • The Body and Beyond

Conclusion

Timeline of Cases

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Hendricks is Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School.