LEADER 02746nam 22004693a 450 001 9910350186403321 005 20250204000923.0 010 $a9783863954253 010 $a3863954254 035 $a(CKB)4100000009845571 035 $a(OAPEN)1006365 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36166 035 $a(ScCtBLL)da3afd27-41ba-40e4-91de-9732b437dd26 035 $a(OCoLC)1135846150 035 $a(oapen)doab36166 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009845571 100 $a20250204i20192020 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aMotherhood and the Law$fHarry Willekens, Kirsten Scheiwe, Theresa Richarz 210 $cUniversita?tsverlag Go?ttingen$d2019 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cUniversitätsverlag Göttingen,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (1 p.) 330 $aWho is a child's legal mother? Must a child have exactly one mother, can it have two or three, or can it have two fathers, but no mother? Or has the concept of motherhood become obsolete and should we just talk of parenthood in a gender neutral way? Questions such as these would have appeared esoteric only a few decades ago, but as a result of new social developments (such as frequent family reconstitutions, gay and lesbian emancipation or surrogacy) and of technological innovations (such as egg and embryo donations) they have become issues in a vehement debate. The interdisciplinary contributions to this book focus on the legal definition of motherhood, on the way in which legal conceptions structure the social discourse on motherhood (and vice versa), and on the influence of legal rules on power relations between mothers, fathers, children and the state. Among the issues addressed are - the challenges to our understanding of the legal regulation of motherhood by developments in reproductive medicine; - the challenges to our understanding of the legal regulation of motherhood by parental constellations deviating from the mother-father-model (single motherhood by choice, same-gender parenthood, multiple parenthood); - the exercise of parental rights in case of parental separation and the impact of legal rules on the bargaining positions of mothers and fathers. 606 $aLaw$2bicssc 610 $amotherhood 610 $alegal regulation 610 $asocial discourse 610 $aparental rights 615 7$aLaw 700 $aWillekens$b Harry$0941456 702 $aScheiwe$b Kirsten 702 $aRicharz$b Theresa 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910350186403321 996 $aMotherhood and the Law$92123680 997 $aUNINA