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...

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Main Author:	Hendricks, Jennifer 1971- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oakland, Calif. University of California Press [2023]
Subjects:	Recht Mutterrolle Eltern Schwangerschaft
Online Access:	UBM01 Volltext
Summary:	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. Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- 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 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.
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (249 Seiten) Diagramme
ISBN:	9780520388277
DOI:	10.1525/9780520388277