Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 Concepts and Constructs; Chapter 2 Law, Ideology, and the Perspective of Feminist Legal Theory—Limitations on Imaginations; Chapter 3 Differences in Context—Feminist Legal Theory and Gendered Lives; Part 2 The Neutered Mother; Chapter 4 The Neutered Mother; Chapter 5 The Deviant Mother; Part 3 The Sexual Family; Chapter 6 The Sexual Family; Chapter 7 The Limits of Privacy—The Public Family; Part 4 Other Tragedies and Utopian Visions; Chapter 8 Other Tragedies; Chapter 9 Re-Visioning;
Martha Albertson Fineman
"The Neutered Mother is...an extended essay that elegantly and
persuasively argues that caretaking relationships are
systematically devalued in American law and culture and traces the
ideological underpinnings of that disregard." -- Las and Social
Inquiry
"This book undertakes an ambitious--even revolutionary--rethinking
of law's approach to the family. Martha Fineman seeks to recenter
legal and social concepts of family around caregiving and
dependency, rather than around the sexual tie between men and
women. She offers a positive vision in which the inevitable
depedency of some members ("children") is recognized as creating
derivative dependency in caregivers ("mothers"). The problem lies
not in dependency itself but in society's refusal to dignify,
support, and protect it. The Neutered Mother is original and
important, a significant step forward in solving questions within
feminist theory and in several areas of contemporary legal and
political struggles involving women and motherhood." -- Martha
Mahoney, University of Miami School of Law
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