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The gift of the other : Levinas and the politics of reproduction /
"The Gift of the Other brings together a philosophical analysis of time, embodiment, and ethical responsibility with a feminist critique of the way women's reproductive capacity has been theorized and represented in Western culture. Author Lisa Guenther develops the ethical and temporal im...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2006.
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| Colección: | SUNY series in gender theory.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The Gift of the Other brings together a philosophical analysis of time, embodiment, and ethical responsibility with a feminist critique of the way women's reproductive capacity has been theorized and represented in Western culture. Author Lisa Guenther develops the ethical and temporal implications of understanding birth as the gift of the Other, a gift which makes existence possible, and already orients this existence toward a radical responsibility for Others. Through an engagement with the work of Levinas, Beauvoir, Arendt, Irigaray, and Kristeva, the author outlines an ethics of maternity based on the givenness of existence and a feminist politics of motherhood which critiques the exploitation of maternal generosity."--Jacket. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 190 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1429417374 9781429417372 9780791468470 9780791481363 0791481360 079146847X 0791468488 9780791468487 |