Essentially a Mother
A Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy and Motherhood
Paperback Engels 2023 9780520388260Samenvatting
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.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
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
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