When mothers kill [electronic resource] : interviews from prison / Michelle Oberman and Cheryl L. Meyer.
2008
HV9471 .O34 2008eb
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When mothers kill [electronic resource] : interviews from prison / Michelle Oberman and Cheryl L. Meyer.
Author
Oberman, Michelle.
ISBN
9780814762196 (electronic book)
9780814762516 (electronic book)
9780814757024
0814757022
9780814762516 (electronic book)
9780814757024
0814757022
Publication Details
New York : New York University Press, c2008.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 179 p.)
Call Number
HV9471 .O34 2008eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.152/308520973
Summary
From 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-173) and index.
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Meyer, Cheryl L., 1959-
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Table of Contents
The 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.
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.