TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lintott,Sheila
AU  - Sander-Staudt,Maureen
TI  - Philosophical inquiries into pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering: maternal subjects 
T2  - Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy
SN  - 0415891876
AV  - HQ759 .P485 2012
U1  - 306.874301 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Motherhood
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Childbirth
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I; Maternal Norms, Practices, and Insights : --; 1; Sara Ruddick, Transracial Adoption, and the Goals of Maternal Practice; Jean Keller --; 2; Where Did I Go? The Invisible Postpartum Mother; Jennifer Benson and Allison Wolf --; 3; Into the Mouths of Babes: The Moral Responsibility to Breastfeed; Christine Overall and Tabitha Bernard --; 4; Tales from the Tit: The Moral and Political Implications of Useless Lactational Suffering; Lissa Skitolsky --; 5; Motherhood and the Workings of Disgust; Sherri Irvin --; Part II; Maternal Roles and Relations : --; 6; The Practical and Theoretical Challenges of Mothering with Disabilities: A Feminist Standpoint Analysis; Maeve M. O'Donovan --; 7; Mothers, Children with Disability, and Post-Modern Sainthood; Christine A. James --; 8; Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Dynamics of Mothering a Daughter; Alison Stone --; 9; Why Don't Philosophers Tell Their Mothers' Stories? Philosophy, Motherhood, and Imaginative Resistance; Joshua Shaw --; 10; On Stepmothers as Hybrid Beings & World-Travelers: Towards a New Model for Care-ful Ethics; Beckey Sukovaty --; Part III; Maternal Phenomena, Phenomenology, and Aesthetics : --; 11; Creating Life, Giving Birth, and Learning to Die; Brooke Schueneman --; 12; The Pregnant Body as a Public Body: An Occasion for Community Care, Instrumental Coercion, and a Singular Collectivity; Julie Piering --; 13; Becoming Bovine: A Phenomenology of Early Motherhood, and its Practical, Political Consequences; Sally Fischer --; 14; The Aesthetics of Childbirth; Peg Brand and Paula Granger --; 15; The Sublimity of Gestating and Giving Birth: Toward a Feminist Conception of the Sublime; Sheila Lintott
N2  - "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."--Publisher's website
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