Mothers on trial : the battle for children and custody / Phyllis Chesler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chesler, Phyllis.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Custody of children--United States.

Custody of children.

Mothers--Legal status, laws, etc.

Mothers.

United States.

Mothers--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xviii, 651 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : McGraw-Hill Book Co., [1986]

Contents:

Part One: Mothers and custody

1. An historical overview

2. A contemporary overview

3. What is a fit mother and father? An unfit mother and father? Who decides?

4. Do "good enough" mothers still lose custody of their children in North America today? The results of an original study

Part Two: The study in depth, I. What "crimes" do "good enough" mothers commit that result in maternal custodial victimization?

5. The "sexual" mother: Anna Karenina today

6. The "uppity" mother

7. The lesbian mother

Part Three: The study in depth, II. What crimes are committed against "good enough" mothers that result in maternal custodial victimization?

8. The poor mother

9. The mother married to a violent man

10. Paternal brainwashing

11. The "voluntarily" non-custodial mother

12. The price of battle: Mothers encounter the psychological law

Part Four: Maternal custody and the male state

13. The mother-lawyer relationship

14. The mother-judge and the father-judge relationships

15. Fetal politics

Who gets custody of the "test-tube" baby?: The reproductive rights of husbands, unwed fathers, sperm donors

and of women

16. Mothers in prison

17. Mothers as prisoners of patriarchy: A comparison of contemporary custody trials and witchcraft trials

18. The international custody situation

Part Five: The mothers speak

19. Mother's wisdom: Philosophical and political perspectives on having and losing children

20. Children's rights

21. Upon divorce

22. Mothers' voices, written on the wind.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-621) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0070107017

9780070107014

OCLC:

12103373