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Title:

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

Publisher:

Columbia University Press,

Copyright Date:

1995

Description:

xiii, 398 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women--Congresses.--United States--Congresses.
Mothers--Congresses.--United States--Congresses.
Feminist jurisprudence--Congresses.
Law--Law
United States

Other Authors:

Fineman, Martha.
Karpin, Isabel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 362-394).

Contents:

Reproductive technologies, surrogacy arrangements, and the politics of motherhood / Laura R. Woliver. 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.

Series:

Gender and culture

ISBN:

9780231096812 (pa.)
023109681X (pa.)
9780231096805 (cl.)
0231096801 (cl.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)31782855
(OCoLC)34849855

LCCN:

94047019

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)