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, so 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 new
kind, who generate meanings and acquire agency from their position
of re-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.
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