Essentially a Mother(English, Paperback, Hendricks Jennifer)

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Essentially a Mother(English, Paperback, Hendricks Jennifer) is written by Hendricks Jennifer and published by University of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520388267 (ISBN 10) and 9780520388260 (ISBN 13).

Essentially a Mother argues that the law of pregnancy and motherhood has been overrun by sexist ideology. Courts have held that a pregnant woman's nine months of gestation hardly count in her claim to parent the child she bears and that a man's brief moment of ejaculation matters more than a woman's labor. Armed with such dubious arguments, courts have stripped women of the right to abortion, treated surrogate mothers as mere vessels, and handed biological fathers-even those who became fathers through rape-automatic rights over women and their children. In this incisive and groundbreaking book, Jennifer Hendricks argues that feminists must overthrow the skewed value system that subordinates women, devalues caregiving, and denies too many the right to parent.