Essentially a Mother

A Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy and Motherhood

Jennifer Hendricks (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38825-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	29.06.2023
Zusatzinfo	1 timeline
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Familienrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-520-38825-9 / 0520388259
ISBN-13	978-0-520-38825-3 / 9780520388253
Zustand	Neuware