When mothers kill
Subtitle: interviews from prison
By: Michelle Oberman and Cheryl L. Meyer.
Contributors: Meyer, Cheryl L., 1959-
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780814757024
Subjects: Ohio Reformatory for Women; Women prisoners -- United States -- Interviews; Women murderers -- United States -- Interviews; Filicide -- United States -- Case studies; Infanticide -- United States -- Case studies
Genres: Interviews.; Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-173) and index.
Table of contents: title: The saddest stories; title: She's the world to me : the mother-daughter relationships described by mothers who committed filicide; title: Fighting for love : filicidal mothers and their male partners; title: Mothering : hopes, expectations and realities; title: Punishment, shame and guilt; title: Making sense of the stories; title: Interactions with the state : holes in the safety nets; title: The end of the story.