Unsexing the End of Men: A Response to Darren Rosenblum’s Unsex Mothering: Toward a Culture of New Parenting
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-2012
ISSN
1558-4356
Publisher
Harvard Law School
Language
en-US
Abstract
Darren Rosenblum’s wonderfully engaging case in Unsex Mothering: Toward a New Culture of Parenting, pulls the reader into what has to be an unobjectionable argument that biosex and motherhood need to be delinked. If the logic is as follows, who could argue?: (1) mother is the nurturer when there are role divisions, and there usually are; (2) men sometimes play the nuturing role, increasingly so; (3) men perhaps especially play that role where all of a child’s parents are biosex men. Rosenblum’s own story intertwines with law and policy delineating mothering and fathering in a way that exposes the descriptive inadequacy of the legal concept “mother.”
Recommended Citation
Katharine B. Silbaugh,
Unsexing the End of Men: A Response to Darren Rosenblum’s Unsex Mothering: Toward a Culture of New Parenting
,
in
Harvard Journal of Law & Gender
(2012).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/3593
Comments
Part of the Unsex Mothering: Online Colloquium hosted by the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender on February 13, 2012.
"Unsexing Men" is a response to Darren Rosenblum's article, "Unsex Mothering: Toward A New Culture of Parenting"