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Coming to life : philosophies of pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering / edited by Sarah LaChance Adams and Caroline R. Lundquist.
Series: Perspectives in continental philosophyPublication details: New York : Fordham University Press, c2013.Description: xvi, 401 p. ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780823244614
- 082324461X
- RG 551 .C66 2013
Contents:
Summary: Coming to Life does what too few scholarly works have dared to attempt: It takes seriously the philosophical significance of women’s lived experience. Every woman, regardless of her own reproductive story, is touched by the beliefs and norms governing discourses about pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering. The volume’s contributors engage in sustained reflection on women’s experiences and on the beliefs, customs, and political institutions by which they are informed. They think beyond the traditional pro-choice/pro-life dichotomy, speak to the manifold nature of mothering by considering the experiences of adoptive mothers and birthmothers, and upend the belief that childrearing practices must be uniform, despite psychosexual differences in children. Many chapters reveal the radical shortcomings of conventional philosophical wisdom by placing trenchant assumptions about subjectivity, gender, power and virtue in dialogue with women’s experience.
Introduction: The Philosophical Significance of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering -- PART I: The Philosophical Canon -- Plato, Maternity, and Power -- Of Courage Born -- Original Habitation -- The Birth of Sexual Difference -- PART II: Ethics -- Birthing Responsibility -- Birthmothers and Maternal Identity -- What's an Adoptive Mother to Do? -- Part III: Politics -- The Pro-Choice Pro-Lifer -- The Political "Nature" of Pregnancy and Childbirth -- Disempowered Women? -- PART IV: Popular Culture -- Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down -- Exposing the Breast -- Part V: Feminist Phenomenology -- The Order of Life -- The Vision of the Artist/Mother.
The volume's contributors engage in sustained reflection on women's experiences and on the beliefs, customs, and political institutions by which they are informed. They think beyond the traditional pro-choice/pro-life dichotomy, speak to the manifold nature of mothering by considering the experiences of adoptive mothers and birthmothers, and upend the belief that childrearing practices must be uniform, despite psychosexual differences in children.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Non-fiction | Main Collection | RG 551 .C66 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | C20001608 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-391) and index.
Introduction: The Philosophical Significance of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering -- PART I: The Philosophical Canon -- Plato, Maternity, and Power -- Of Courage Born -- Original Habitation -- The Birth of Sexual Difference -- PART II: Ethics -- Birthing Responsibility -- Birthmothers and Maternal Identity -- What's an Adoptive Mother to Do? -- Part III: Politics -- The Pro-Choice Pro-Lifer -- The Political "Nature" of Pregnancy and Childbirth -- Disempowered Women? -- PART IV: Popular Culture -- Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down -- Exposing the Breast -- Part V: Feminist Phenomenology -- The Order of Life -- The Vision of the Artist/Mother.
The volume's contributors engage in sustained reflection on women's experiences and on the beliefs, customs, and political institutions by which they are informed. They think beyond the traditional pro-choice/pro-life dichotomy, speak to the manifold nature of mothering by considering the experiences of adoptive mothers and birthmothers, and upend the belief that childrearing practices must be uniform, despite psychosexual differences in children.
Coming to Life does what too few scholarly works have dared to attempt: It takes seriously the philosophical significance of women’s lived experience. Every woman, regardless of her own reproductive story, is touched by the beliefs and norms governing discourses about pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering. The volume’s contributors engage in sustained reflection on women’s experiences and on the beliefs, customs, and political institutions by which they are informed. They think beyond the traditional pro-choice/pro-life dichotomy, speak to the manifold nature of mothering by considering the experiences of adoptive mothers and birthmothers, and upend the belief that childrearing practices must be uniform, despite psychosexual differences in children. Many chapters reveal the radical shortcomings of conventional philosophical wisdom by placing trenchant assumptions about subjectivity, gender, power and virtue in dialogue with women’s experience.
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