Coming to Life : Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Lundquist, Caroline R., LaChance Adams, Sarah
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Feminism.
Modersrollen.
Barnafödande.
Graviditet.
Schwangerschaft
Mutter
Geburt
Pregnancy.
Motherhood.
Childbirth.
philosophy.
feminism.
maternity.
pregnancy.
Philosophie.
Rôle parental.
Feminisme.
Maternite.
Grossesse.
Philosophy
Feminism
Parenting
Parturition
Pregnancy
Philosophy.
Parenting.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Eva Kittay
  • Introduction : the philosophical significance of pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering / Sarah LaChance Adams and Caroline R. Lundquist
  • Plato, maternity, and power : can we get a different midwife? / Cynthia D. Coe
  • Of courage born : reflections on childbirth and manly courage / Kayley Varnallis
  • Original habitation : pregnant flesh as absolute hospitality / Frances Gray
  • The birth of sexual difference : a feminist response to Merleau-Ponty / Lisa Guenther
  • Birthing responsibility : a phenomenological perspective on the moral significance of birth / Gail Weiss
  • Birthmothers and maternal identity: the terms of relinquishment / Dorothy Rogers
  • What's an adoptive mother to do? When your child's desires are a problem / Melissa Burchard
  • The pro-choice pro-lifer : battling the false dichotomy / Bertha Alvarez Manninen
  • The political "nature" of pregnancy and childbirth / Candace Johnson
  • Disempowered women? The midwifery model and medical intervention / Sonya Charles
  • Knock me up, knock me down : images of pregnancy in Hollywood films and popular culture / Kelly Oliver
  • Exposing the breast : the animal and the abject in American attitudes toward breastfeeding / Rebecca Tuvel
  • The order of life : how phenomenologies of pregnancy revise and reject theories of the subject / Talia Welsh
  • The vision of the artist/mother : the strange creativity of painting and pregnancy / Florentien Verhage.

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