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Still a Mother : Noncustodial Mothers, Gendered Institutions, and Social Change /
Jackie Krasas traces the trajectories of non-custodial mothers who have lost or ceded custody to an ex-partner. She argues that non-custodial mothers' experiences should be understood within a greater web of gendered social institutions such as employment, education, health care, and legal syte...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Jackie Krasas traces the trajectories of non-custodial mothers who have lost or ceded custody to an ex-partner. She argues that non-custodial mothers' experiences should be understood within a greater web of gendered social institutions such as employment, education, health care, and legal sytems that shape the meanings of contemporary motherhood in the United States. If motherhood means "being there" then non-custodial mothers, through their absence, are seen as non-mothers. They are anti-mothers to be reviled. At the very least, these mothers serve as cautionary tales.Still a Mother questions the existence of an objective method for determining custody for children and challenges the "best interests" standard through a feminist reproductive justice lens. The stories of non-custodial mothers Krasas relates shed light on marriage and divorce, caregiving, gender violence, and family court. Unfortunately, much of the contemporary discussion of child custody determination is dominated either by gender neutral discussions, or at the opposite end of the spectrum by the idea that fathers are severely disadvantaged in custody disputes. As a result, the idea that mothers always have custody has taken on the status of common sense. If this were true, as Krasas affirms, there would be no book to write. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (228 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9781501754319 9783110739084 9783110754001 9783110753776 9783110754186 9783110753967 |
| Acceso: | restricted access |