Coming to Life : : Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering / / ed. by Caroline R. Lundquist, Sarah LaChance Adams.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• HerausgeberIn: Adams, Sarah LaChance,; Lundquist, Caroline R.,
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Sarah Lachance,; Burchard, Melissa,; Charles, Sonya,; Coe, Cynthia D.,; Gray, Frances,; Guenther, Lisa,; Johnson, Candace,; Kittay, Eva,; Lundquist, Caroline R.,; Manninen, Bertha Alvarez,; Oliver, Kelly,; Rogers, Dorothy,; Tuvel, Rebecca,; Verhage, Florentien,; Vernallis, Kayley,; Weiss, Gail,; Welsh, Talia,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Th e Philosophical Significance of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering --; PART I : THE PHILOSOPHICAL CANON --; 1 Plato, Maternity, and Power: Can We Get a Different Midwife? --; 2 Of Courage Born: Reflections on Childbirth and Manly Courage --; 3 Original Habitation: Pregnant Flesh as Absolute Hospitality --; 4 The Birth of Sexual Difference: A Feminist Response to Merleau- Ponty --; PART II: ETHICS --; 5 Birthing Responsibility: A Phenomenological Perspective on the Moral Significance of Birth --; 6 Birthmothers and Maternal Identity: The Terms of Relinquishment --; 7 What’s an Adoptive Mother to Do? When Your Child’s Desires Are a Problem --; PART III: POLITICS --; 8 The Pro- Choice Pro- Lifer: Battling the False Dichoto --; 9 The Political “Nature” of Pregnancy and Childbirth --; 10 Disempowered Women? The Midwifery Model and Medical Intervention --; PART IV: POPULAR CULTURE --; 11 Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Film and Popular Culture --; 12 Exposing the Breast: The Animal and the Abject in American Attitudes Toward Breastfeeding --; PART V: FEMINIST PHENOMENOLOGY --; 13 The Order of Life: How Phenomenologies of Pregnancy Revise and Reject Theories of the Subject --; 14 The Vision of the Artist/Mother: The Strange Creativity of Painting and Pregnancy --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780823291212; 9783111189604; 9783110707298
• DOI: 10.1515/9780823291212
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Caroline R. Lundquist, Sarah LaChance Adams.

Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering is a superlative collection of essays that does what too few scholarly works have dared: it takes seriously the philosophical significance of women’s lived experience. Every woman, regardless of her own reproductive story, is touched by the often restrictive beliefs and norms governing discourses about pregnancy, childbirth and mothering. Thus the concerns of this anthology are relevant to all women and central to any philosophical project that takes women’s lives seriously. In this volume 16 authors- including both established feminists and some of today’s most innovative new scholars- engage in sustained reflection on the experiences of pregnancy, childbirth and mothering, and on the beliefs, customs, and political institutions by which those experiences are informed. Many of the topics in this collection, though familiar, are here taken up in a new way: contributors think beyond the traditional pro-choice/pro-life dichotomy, speak to the manifold nature of mothering by considering the experiences of adoptive mothers and birthmothers, and upend the belief that childrearing practices must be uniform despite psycho-sexual differences in children. Many chapters reveal the radical shortcomings of conventional philosophical wisdom by placing trenchant assumptions about subjectivity, gender, power and virtue in dialogue with women’s experience. The volume is diverse both in its content and in its scholarly approach; certain of the essays are informed by their authors’ own experiences, others draw from extant narratives; many engage such canonical thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche and Heidegger, while others draw from the works of contemporary feminists including Sara Ruddick, Iris Marion Young, Virginia Held, Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray. All readers, regardless of their philosophical training and commitments, will find much to appreciate in this volume.