Autonomous Motherhood?

Susan B. Boyd is a professor and holds the Chair in Feminist Legal Studies in the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia.Dorothy E. Chunn is a professor emerita of sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University.Fiona Kelly is a senior lecturer in the School of Law at La Trobe University.Wanda Wiegers is a professor in the College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan.

• 1. Motherhood, Autonomy, Choice, and Constraint2. Autonomous Mothers and the Emergence of Unmarried Fathers’ Rights to Access and Custody3. “A Person is the Child of his Natural Parents”: Illegitimacy, Law Reform, and Maternal Autonomy4. Custody and Access Disputes between Unmarried, Non-Cohabiting Biological Parents 1945–20095. Women’s Experiences Of Autonomous Motherhood, 1965–2010: An Historical Snapshot6. Autonomous from the Start: The Narratives of Single Mothers by Choice7. Whither Autonomous Motherhood? Choice and Constraint

‘Autonomous Motherhood is a wonderful and welcome contribution to feminist socio-legal literature….It raises provocative, timely, and important questions, and will provide the basis for future scholarship on single motherhood, relational autonomy, and legal regulation.’- Brenda Cossman (Canadian Journal of Family Law vol 30:01:2017) ‘Through a refined investigation showing sociological, legal, and historical depth, the authors offer many insightful answers to the problem of social reproduction which continues to be framed in terms of private and personal matters…This book offers an innovative study of an over-neglected topic.’- Emmanaulle Turcotte (Canadian Journal of Family and Youth vol 9:01:2017)