ISBN:
9780203182932
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1283461986
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9781136593529
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9780415885423
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9781283461986
Language:
English
Pages:
194 p
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Parallel Title:
Print version Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity
DDC:
306.874/301
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [180]-188) and index
Abstract:
In this book, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must separate oneself from the mother and maternal care-givers on whom one depended in childhood to become a self or, in modernity, an autonomous subject. These assumptions make it difficult to be a mother and a subject, an autonomous creator of meaning. Insofar as mothers nonetheless strive to regain their subjectivity when their motherhood seems to have compromised it, theirs cannot be the usual kind
Description / Table of Contents:
Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Maternity Between Body and Subjectivity; 1 From Mothering to Maternal Experience; 2 Parricide and Matricide; 3 Maternal Space; 4 Re-Assessing Mother-Daughter Relationships; 5 Ambivalence and the Dynamics of Mothering a Daughter; 6 Maternal Time; 7 Maternal Loss; Notes; References; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Available via World Wide Web
