Mother on Trial: Speaking Parts 2007 · Directed by Kristine Diekman
60 min
Documentary / Biography
Mother on Trial: Speaking Parts is series of interviews conducted with women suffering from post-partum depression or psychosis. Countering the commonly held notion that filicidal mothers are either mad or bad (evil), the writer Michelle Oberman suggests that infanticide 'may be seen as a response to the societal construction of and constraints upon mothering...'.