Author: Fineman, Martha Albertson
Title: The Neutered Mother, the Sexual Family and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies
Description: New York / London, Routledge, (1995). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xi, 239 pp. Slight binding corner bump & rubbing, minor page-edge soil, VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction; Concepts & Constructs: Law, Ideology, & the Perspective of Feminist Legal Theory - Limitations on Imaginations; Differences in Context - Feminist Legal Theory & Gendered Lives; The Neutered Mother: Mother as Symbol; The Construction of Mother in Law; The Deviant Mother: The Construction of Maternal Deviancy in Poverty Discourses; The Construction of Maternal Deviancy in the Context of Divorce; Abusive Mothers; The Sexual Family: Structuring Intimacy; The Sexual or Natural Family as Sacred; The Undeveloped Dependency Discourse; The Limits of Privacy - The Public Family: The Discourse of Intervention; Privacy & Single Mothers; Other Tragedies & Utopian Visions: The Discourse of Fathers' Rights; Differentiating Fathers; Single Mothers & the "Costs" of Responsibility; The Further Separation of Mother from Child; Re- Visioning.

Keywords: Feminist Jurisprudence, Legal Theory, Law, Feminism, Gender, Family, Mother and Child, Domestic Relations,