Coming to Life Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering

Name: Coming to Life Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering
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ISBN: 9780823244614

ISBN-10: 082324461X

ISBN-13: 9780823244614

Edition: 2012

Authors: Sarah LaChance Adams, Caroline R. Lundquist

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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. Thus, the concerns of this anthology are relevant to all women and central to any philosophical project that takes women's lives seriously. 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…

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List price: $57.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 12/24/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Philosophical Significance of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering




The Philosophical Canon



Plato, Maternity, and Power: Can We Get a Different Midwife?




Of Courage Born: Reflections on Childbirth and Manly Courage




Original Habitation: Pregnant Flesh as Absolute Hospitality




The Birth of Sexual Difference: A Feminist Response to Merleau-Ponty




Ethics



Birthing Responsibility: A Phenomenological Perspective on the Moral Significance of Birth




Birthmothers and Maternal Identity: The Terms of Relinquishment




What's an Adoptive Mother to Do? When Your Child's Desires Are a Problem




Politics



The Pro-Choice Pro-Lifer: Battling the False Dichotomy




The Political "Nature" of Pregnancy and Childbirth




Disempowered Women? The Midwifery Model and Medical Intervention




Popular Culture



Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Film and Popular Culture




Exposing the Breast: The Animal and the Abject in American Attitudes Toward Breastfeeding




Feminist Phenomenology



The Order of Life: How Phenomenologies of Pregnancy Revise and Reject Theories of the Subject




The Vision of the Artist/Mother: The Strange Creativity of Painting and Pregnancy



Notes


Bibliography


List of Contributors


Index