Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a "Good" Mother Would Do : : The Ethics of Ambivalence / / Sarah LaChance Adams.
When a mother kills her child, we call her a bad mother, but, as this book shows, even mothers who intend to do their children harm are not easily categorized as "mad" or "bad." Maternal love is a complex emotion rich with contradictory impulses and desires, and motherhood is a c...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and what a "Good" Mother Would Do
- 2. The Mother as Ethical Exemplar in Care Ethics
- 3. Motherhood's Janus Head
- 4. Maternity as Vulnerability in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas
- 5. Maternity as Dehiscence in the Flesh in the Philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- 6. Maternity as Negotiating Mutual Transcendence in the Philosophy of Simone De Beauvoir
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index