Essentially a Mother : A Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy and Motherhood

Hendricks, Jennifer

University of California Press（2023/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 260 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780520388260
• DDC分類 346.73017

Full Description

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.

Contents

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