ISBN:
9780415891875
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (285 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Parallel Title:
Print version Philosophical Inquiry into Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering : Maternal Subjects
DDC:
306.874301
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Philosophical inquiry into pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering is a growing area of interest to academic philosophers. This volume brings together a diverse group of philosophers to speak about topics in this reemerging area of philosophical inquiry, taking up new themes, such as maternal aesthetics, and pursuing old ones in new ways, such as investigating stepmothering as it might inform and ground an ethics of care. The theoretical foci of the book include feminist, existential, ethical, aesthetic, phenomenological, social and political theories. These perspectives are then employed to cons
Description / Table of Contents:
Philosophical Inquiries into Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering Maternal Subjects; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Maternal Norms, Practices, and Insights; 1 Sara Ruddick, Transracial Adoption, and the Goals of Maternal Practice; 2 Where Did I Go? The Invisible Postpartum Mother; 3 Into the Mouths of Babes: The Moral Responsibility to Breastfeed; 4 Tales from the Tit: The Moral and Political Implications of Useless Lactational Suffering; 5 Motherhood and the Workings of Disgust; PART II Maternal Roles and Relations
Description / Table of Contents:
6 The Practical and Theoretical Challenges of Mothering with Disabilities: A Feminist Standpoint Analysis7 Mothers, Children with Disability, and Postmodern Sainthood; 8 Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Dynamics of Mothering a Daughter; 9 Why Don't Philosophers Tell Their Mothers' Stories? Philosophy, Motherhood, and Imaginative Resistance; 10 On Stepmothers as Hybrid Beings and World Travelers: Towards a New Model for Care-full Ethics; PART III Maternal Phenomena, Phenomenology, and Aesthetics; 11 Creating Life, Giving Birth, and Learning to Die
Description / Table of Contents:
12 The Pregnant Body as a Public Body: An Occasion for Community Care, Instrumental Coercion, and a Singular Collectivity13 Becoming Bovine: A Phenomenology of Early Motherhood, and Its Practical, Political Consequences; 14 The Aesthetics of Childbirth; 15 The Sublimity of Gestating and Giving Birth: Toward a Feminist Conception of the Sublime; Contributors; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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