TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stone,Alison
TI  - Feminism, psychoanalysis, and maternal subjectivity
T2  - Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy
SN  - 0415885426
AV  - HQ759 .S698 2012
U1  - 306.874301 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Mothers
KW  - Motherhood
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Subjectivity
KW  - Feminist theory
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: maternity between body and subjectivity -- From mothering to maternal experience -- Parricide and matricide -- Maternal space -- Re-assessing mother-daughter relationships -- Ambivalence and the dynamics of mothering a daughter -- Maternal time -- Maternal loss
N2  - 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, such 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 distinctive kind, who generate meanings and acquire agency from their position of 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. -- Book Description
ER  -