Philosophy And The Maternal Body

Author : Michelle Boulous Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134703043

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Philosophy and the Maternal Body by Michelle Boulous Walker Pdf

Philosophy and the Maternal Body gives a new voice to the mother and the maternal body which have often been viewed as silent within philosophy. Michelle Boulous Walker clearly shows how some male theorists have appropriated maternity, and suggests new ways of articulating the maternal body and women's experience of pregnancy and motherhood.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0203336879

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Philosophy and the Maternal Body by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alison Sharrock,Alison Keith
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487532017

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Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy by Alison Sharrock,Alison Keith Pdf

This book explores motherhood in Greek and Roman literature, focusing on images of mothers and their relationships with their children across a variety of genres.

Author : Alison Stone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136593512

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Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity by Alison Stone Pdf

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 of subjectivity premised on separation from the maternal body. Mothers are subjects of a new kind, who generate meanings and acquire agency from their position of re-immersion in the realm of maternal body relations, of bodily intimacy and dependency. Thus Stone interprets maternal subjectivity as a specific form of subjectivity that is continuous with the maternal body. Stone analyzes this form of subjectivity in terms of how the mother typically reproduces with her child her history of bodily relations with her own mother, leading to a distinctive maternal and cyclical form of lived time.

Author : Michelle Boulous Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134703050

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Philosophy and the Maternal Body by Michelle Boulous Walker Pdf

Philosophy and the Maternal Body gives a new voice to the mother and the maternal body which have often been viewed as silent within philosophy. Michelle Boulous Walker clearly shows how some male theorists have appropriated maternity, and suggests new ways of articulating the maternal body and women's experience of pregnancy and motherhood.

Author : Rebecca Kukla
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Body image
ISBN : 0742533581

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Mass Hysteria by Rebecca Kukla Pdf

Mass Hysteria examines the medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding. Late eighteenth century transformations in these practices reshaped mothers' bodies, and contemporary norms and routines of prenatal care and early motherhood have inherited the legacy of that era. As a result, mothers are socially positioned in ways that can make it difficult for them to establish and maintain healthy and safe boundaries and appropriate divisions between public and private space.

Author : Rebecca Kukla
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461640011

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Mass Hysteria by Rebecca Kukla Pdf

In Mass Hysteria, Rebecca Kukla examines the present-day medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding. In the late-eighteenth century, the configuration of the maternal body underwent a radical transformation and the two maternal bodies that emerged out of this transformation still govern our imagination and rituals surrounding pregnancy and lactation. Exploring the history and the current life of these two maternal bodies within medical institutions, popular culture, and politics, Kukla offers a critical assessment of the lived repercussions of these ideological figures and practices for contemporary women's and infants' health and well-being.

Author : Sheila Lintott
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781444341430

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Motherhood - Philosophy for Everyone by Sheila Lintott Pdf

MOTHERHOOD PHILOSOPHY FOR EVERYONE If you have ever wondered what makes a “good” or a “bad” mother, or if mothers are always right in thinking their babies are beautiful, or indeed, whether mother always knows best, look no further. Without a single nag, Motherhood – Philosophy for Everyone covers these salient philosophical issues, and more, including: The anticipation of impending parenthood compared with the reality Should we tell the occasional lie to our children? What does the Bible actually say about the virgin birth? If we were able to turn our children off, would and should we be tempted by this option? The experience of lesbian mothering The unexpected challenges and complications of being a mother “As in any group of thinkers, some mothers are more ambitiously reflective than others, either out of temperamental thoughtfulness, moral and political concerns, or, most often, because they have serious problems with their children. However, maternal thinking is no rarity. Maternal work itself demands that mothers think...” From Maternal Thinking: Toward A Politics of Peace, Sara Ruddick

Author : Sheila Lintott,Maureen Sander-Staudt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136511226

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Philosophical Inquiries into Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering by Sheila Lintott,Maureen Sander-Staudt Pdf

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 consider many dimensions of pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering, which are of central importance to human existence, but are only rarely discussed in philosophical cannons. Topics include pregnancy and embodiment, breast-feeding, representations – or the lack thereof – of pregnant and birthing women, adoption, and post-partum motherhood.

Author : Sarah LaChance Adams
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231537223

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Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a "Good" Mother Would Do by Sarah LaChance Adams Pdf

When a mother kills her child, we call her a bad mother, but, as this book shows, even mothers who intend to do their children harm are not easily categorized as "mad" or "bad." Maternal love is a complex emotion rich with contradictory impulses and desires, and motherhood is a conflicted state in which women constantly renegotiate the needs mother and child, the self and the other. Applying care ethics philosophy and the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Simone de Beauvoir to real-world experiences of motherhood, Sarah LaChance Adams throws the inherent tensions of motherhood into sharp relief, drawing a more nuanced portrait of the mother and child relationship than previously conceived. The maternal example is particularly instructive for ethical theory, highlighting the dynamics of human interdependence while also affirming separate interests. LaChance Adams particularly focuses on maternal ambivalence and its morally productive role in reinforcing the divergence between oneself and others, helping to recognize the particularities of situation, and negotiating the difference between one's own needs and the desires of others. She ultimately argues maternal filicide is a social problem requiring a collective solution that ethical philosophy and philosophies of care can inform.

Author : Sarah LaChance Adams,Caroline R. Lundquist
Publisher : Perspectives in Continental Ph
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 082324461X

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Coming to Life by Sarah LaChance Adams,Caroline R. Lundquist Pdf

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.

Author : Lisa Guenther
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791481363

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The Gift of the Other by Lisa Guenther Pdf

A philosophical exploration of birth, maternity, and reproduction. Winner of the 2007 Symposium Book Award presented by Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy

Author : Rebekah Pryor
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334055969

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Motherly by Rebekah Pryor Pdf

How can contemporary art reimagine the body of the mother in relation to a feminist Christian conception of the divine? And, at the level of culture, what might be the implications of the maternal body imaged as ordinary, multiple, generative and divine? Following movements in her own visual art practice, and traversing the discourses of feminist theory, contemporary art and philosophy of religion, artist and scholar Rebekah Pryor considers philosopher Luce Irigaray’s key notions of sexuate difference, the sensible transcendental and “love at work in thinking” on the way to proposing alternate artistic and theological motifs of the maternal body and the divine for our time. Five new motifs emerge, challenging iconographic conventions and proposing an expanded vision of the mother and the divine in feminist theology and contemporary art.

Author : Hans Bernhard Schmid,Gerhard Thonhauser
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319568652

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From Conventionalism to Social Authenticity by Hans Bernhard Schmid,Gerhard Thonhauser Pdf

This edited volume offers a new approach to understanding social conventions by way of Martin Heidegger. It connects the philosopher's conceptions of the anyone, everydayness, and authenticity with an analysis and critique of social normativity. Heidegger’s account of the anyone is ambiguous. Some see it as a good description of human sociality, others think of it as an important critique of modern mass society. This volume seeks to understand this ambiguity as reflecting the tension between the constitutive function of conventions for human action and the critical aspects of conformism. It argues that Heidegger’s anyone should neither be reduced to its pejorative nor its constitutive dimension. Rather, the concept could show how power and norms function. This volume would be of interest to scholars and students of philosophy and the social sciences who wish to investigate the social applications of the works of Martin Heidegger.

Author : Elly Teman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780520259638

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Birthing a Mother by Elly Teman Pdf

This is an ethnography which probes the intimate experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. Teman shows how surrogates and intended mothers carefully negotiate their cooperative endeavour.