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Coming to life: philosophies of pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering

Sarah LaChance Adams and Caroline R Lundquist
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  • Contents

  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword (Eva Kittay, page xi)
  • Acknowledgments (page xv)
  • Introduction: The Philosophical Significance of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering (Sarah LaChance Adams and Caroline R. Lundquist, page 1)
  • PART I: THE PHILOSOPHICAL CANON
    • 1 Plato, Maternity, and Power: Can We Get a Different Midwife? (Cynthia D. Coe, page 31)
    • 2 Of Courage Born: Reflections on Childbirth and Manly Courage (Kayley Varnallis, page 47)
    • 3 Original Habitation: Pregnant Flesh as Absolute Hospitality (Frances Gray, page 71)
    • 4 The Birth of Sexual Difference: A Feminist Response to Merleau-Ponty (Lisa Guenther, page 88)
  • PART II: ETHICS
    • 5 Birthing Responsibility: A Phenomenological Perspective on the Moral Significance of Birth (Gail Weiss, page 109)
    • 6 Birthmothers and Maternal Identity: The Terms of Relinquishment (Dorothy Rogers, page 120)
    • 7 What's an Adoptive Mother to Do? When Your Child's Desires Are a Problem (Melissa Burchard, page 138)
  • PART III: POLITICS
    • 8 The Pro-Choice Pro-Lifer: Battling the False Dichotomy (Bertha Alvarez Manninen, page 171)
    • 9 The Political "Nature" of Pregnancy and Childbirth (Candace Johnson, page 193)
    • 10 Disempowered Women? The Midwifery Model and Medical Intervention (Sonya Charles, page 215)
  • PART IV: POPULAR CULTURE
    • 11 Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Film and Popular Culture (Kelly Oliver, page 241)
    • 12 Exposing the Breast: The Animal and the Abject in American Attitudes Toward Breastfeeding (Rebecca Tuvel, page 263)
  • PART V: FEMINIST PHENOMENOLOGY
    • 13 The Order of Life: How Phenomenologies of Pregnancy Revise and Reject Theories of the Subject (Talia Welsh, page 283)
    • 14 The Vision of the Artist/Mother: The Strange Creativity of Painting and Pregnancy (Florentien Verhage, page 300)
  • Notes (page 321)
  • Bibliography (page 371)
  • List of Contributors (page 393)
  • Index (page 397)
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Published: 2013
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780823244614 (paper)
  • 9780823250677 (ebook)
  • 9780823244607 (hardcover)
Series
  • Fordham Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Subject
  • Philosophy
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