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| Author | : Susan B. Boyd |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2015-05-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1442619104 |
Since the end of the Second World War, increasing numbers of women have decided to become mothers without intending the biological father or a partner to participate in parenting. Many conceive via donor insemination or adopt; others become pregnant after a brief sexual relationship and decide to parent alone. Using a feminist socio-legal framework, Autonomous Motherhood? probes fundamental assumptions within the law about the nature of family and parenting. Drawing on a range of empirical evidence, including legislative history, case studies, and interviews with single mothers, the authors conclude that while women may now have the economic and social freedom to parent alone, they must still negotiate a socio-legal framework that suggests their choice goes against the interests of society, fatherhood, and children.
| Author | : Susan B. Boyd |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2015-01-01 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 1442626453 |
Since the end of the Second World War, increasing numbers of women have decided to become mothers without intending the biological father or a partner to participate in parenting. Many conceive via donor insemination or adopt; others become pregnant after a brief sexual relationship and decide to parent alone. Using a feminist socio-legal framework, Autonomous Motherhood? probes fundamental assumptions within the law about the nature of family and parenting. Drawing on a range of empirical evidence, including legislative history, case studies, and interviews with single mothers, the authors conclude that while women may now have the economic and social freedom to parent alone, they must still negotiate a socio-legal framework that suggests their choice goes against the interests of society, fatherhood, and children.
| Author | : Susan B. Boyd |
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| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
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Since the end of the Second World War, increasing numbers of women have decided to become mothers without intending the biological father or a partner to participate in parenting. Many conceive via donor insemination or adopt; others become pregnant after a brief sexual relationship and decide to parent alone. Using a feminist socio-legal framework, Autonomous Motherhood probes fundamental assumptions within the law about the nature of family and parenting. Drawing on a range of empirical evidence, including legislative history, case studies, and interviews with single mothers, the authors conclude that while women may now have the economic and social freedom to parent alone, they must still negotiate a socio-legal framework that suggests their choice goes against the interests of society, fatherhood, and children.
| Author | : Harry Willekens |
| Publisher | : Göttingen University Press |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence |
| ISBN | : 3863954254 |
Who is a child’s legal mother? Must a child have exactly one mother, can it have two or three, or can it have two fathers, but no mother? Or has the concept of motherhood become obsolete and should we just talk of parenthood in a gender neutral way? Questions such as these would have appeared esoteric only a few decades ago, but as a result of new social developments (such as frequent family reconstitutions, gay and lesbian emancipation or surrogacy) and of technological innovations (such as egg and embryo donations) they have become issues in a vehement debate. The interdisciplinary contributions to this book focus on the legal definition of motherhood, on the way in which legal conceptions structure the social discourse on motherhood (and vice versa), and on the influence of legal rules on power relations between mothers, fathers, children and the state. Among the issues addressed are - the challenges to our understanding of the legal regulation of motherhood by developments in reproductive medicine; - the challenges to our understanding of the legal regulation of motherhood by parental constellations deviating from the mother-father-model (single motherhood by choice, same-gender parenthood, multiple parenthood); - the exercise of parental rights in case of parental separation and the impact of legal rules on the bargaining positions of mothers and fathers.
| Author | : Catriona Mackenzie |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Agent (Philosophy). |
| ISBN | : 0195123336 |
These essays explore the social and relational dimensions of individual autonomy. Rejecting the feminist charge that autonomy is inherently masculinist, the contributors draw on feminist critiques of autonomy to challenge philosophical debates about agency, identity, and moral responsibility.
| Author | : Toni Bowers |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 1996-07-13 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 9780521551748 |
An examination of the eighteenth-century social and cultural struggle to develop new ideas for virtuous motherhood.
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| Total Pages | : 75 |
| Release | : 2004 |
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| Author | : Alison Stone |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2013-03-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1136593519 |
In this book, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must separate oneself from the mother and maternal care-givers on whom one depended in childhood to become a self or, in modernity, an autonomous subject. These assumptions make it difficult to be a mother and a subject, an autonomous creator of meaning. Insofar as mothers nonetheless strive to regain their subjectivity when their motherhood seems to have compromised it, theirs cannot be the usual kind of subjectivity premised on separation from the maternal body. Mothers are subjects of a new kind, who generate meanings and acquire agency from their position of re-immersion in the realm of maternal body relations, of bodily intimacy and dependency. Thus Stone interprets maternal subjectivity as a specific form of subjectivity that is continuous with the maternal body. Stone analyzes this form of subjectivity in terms of how the mother typically reproduces with her child her history of bodily relations with her own mother, leading to a distinctive maternal and cyclical form of lived time.
| Author | : Camillia Cowling |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 479 |
| Release | : 2020-05-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0429535805 |
This book provides critical perspectives on the multiple forms of ‘mothering’ that took place in Atlantic slave societies. Facing repeated child death, mothering was a site of trauma and grief for many, even as slaveholders romanticized enslaved women’s work in caring for slaveholders' children. Examining a wide range of societies including medieval Spain, Brazil, and New England, and including the work of historians based in Brazil, Cuba, the United States, and Britain, this collection breaks new ground in demonstrating the importance of mothering for the perpetuation of slavery, and the complexity of the experience of motherhood in such circumstances. This pathbreaking collection, on all aspects of the experience, politics, and representations of motherhood under Atlantic slavery, analyses societies across the Atlantic world, and will be of interest to those studying the history of slavery as well as those studying mothering throughout history. This book comprises two special issues, originally published in Slavery & Abolition and Women’s History Review.
| Author | : Christine Everingham |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
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This powerful book extends contemporary scholarly debates on mothering and modernity and is a valuable resource for teaching in women's studes and sociology.
