Still a Mother by Jackie Krasas - 9781501754296

Still a MotherNoncustodial Mothers, Gendered Institutions, and Social Change\nAuthor(s): Jackie Krasas\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9781501754296, 978-1501754296\nSynopsis\nJackie Krasas traces the trajectories of mothers who have lost or ceded custody to an ex-partner. She argues that these noncustodial mothers' experiences should be understood within a greater web of gendered social institutions such as employment, education, health care, and legal systems that shapes the meanings of contemporary motherhood in the United States. If motherhood means \""being there,\"" then noncustodial mothers, through their absence, are seen as nonmothers. They are anti-mothers to be reviled. At the very least, these mothers serve as cautionary tales.\n\n Still a Mother questions the existence of an objective method for determining custody of children and challenges the \""best-interests standard\"" through a feminist.