Essentially a Mother: A Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy and Motherhood (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520388260)

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.

Author: Jennifer Hendricks
ISBN-10: 0520388267
ISBN-13: 9780520388260
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 05/02/2023
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d