LEADER 04543nam 22008174a 450 001 9910822759603321 005 20240516125039.0 010 $a0-8147-6251-4 010 $a0-8147-6219-0 024 7 $a10.18574/nyu/9780814762516 035 $a(CKB)1000000000486951 035 $a(EBL)865729 035 $a(OCoLC)779828218 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000271027 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11253766 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000271027 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10280754 035 $a(PQKB)11233631 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865729 035 $a(OCoLC)233535865 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10573 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL865729 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10268983 035 $a(DE-B1597)547572 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814762516 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000486951 100 $a20071204d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhen mothers kill$b[electronic resource] $einterviews from prison /$fMichelle Oberman and Cheryl L. Meyer 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (190 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-5703-0 311 $a0-8147-5702-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 161-173) and index. 327 $aThe saddest stories -- She's the world to me : the mother-daughter relationships described by mothers who committed filicide -- Fighting for love : filicidal mothers and their male partners -- Mothering : hopes, expectations and realities -- Punishment, shame and guilt -- Making sense of the stories -- Interactions with the state : holes in the safety nets -- The end of the story. 330 $aFrom the Publisher: Michelle Oberman and Cheryl L. Meyer don't write for news magazines or prime-time investigative television shows, but the stories they tell hold the same fascination. When Mothers Kill is compelling. In a clear, direct fashion the authors recount what they have learned from interviewing women imprisoned for killing their children. Readers will be shocked and outraged-as much by the violence the women have endured in their own lives as by the violence they engaged in-but they will also be informed and even enlightened. Oberman and Meyer are leading authorities on their subject. Their 2001 book, Mothers Who Kill Their Children, drew from hundreds of newspaper articles as well as from medical and social science journals to propose a comprehensive typology of "maternal filicide." In that same year, driven by a desire to test their typology-and to better understand child-killing women not just as types but as individuals-Oberman and Meyer began interviewing women who had been incarcerated for the crime. After conducting lengthy, face-to-face interviews with forty prison inmates, they returned and selected eight women to speak with at even greater length. This new book begins with these stories, recounted in the matter-of-fact words of the inmates themselves. There are collective themes that emerge from these individual accounts, including histories of relentless interpersonal violence, troubled relationships with parents (particularly with mothers), twisted notions of romantic love, and deep conflicts about motherhood. These themes structure the book's overall narrative, which also includes an insightful examination of the social and institutional systems that have failed these women. Neither the mothers nor the authors offer these stories as excuses for these crimes. 606 $aWomen prisoners$zUnited States$vInterviews 606 $aWomen murderers$zUnited States$vInterviews 606 $aFilicide$zUnited States$vCase studies 606 $aInfanticide$zUnited States$vCase studies 610 $abook. 610 $acommitted. 610 $acrime. 610 $adeeply. 610 $afilled. 610 $ahave. 610 $amothers. 610 $amoving. 610 $astories. 610 $aultimate. 610 $awith. 615 0$aWomen prisoners 615 0$aWomen murderers 615 0$aFilicide 615 0$aInfanticide 676 $a364.152/308520973 700 $aOberman$b Michelle$01617719 701 $aMeyer$b Cheryl L.$f1959-$01617718 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822759603321 996 $aWhen mothers kill$94059807 997 $aUNINA