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The Phenomenology of Gravidity - Reframing Pregnancy and the Maternal through Merleau-Ponty, Levinas and Derrida (Paperback)
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The Phenomenology of Gravidity - Reframing Pregnancy and the Maternal through Merleau-Ponty, Levinas and Derrida (Paperback)
Series: Continental Philosophy in Austral-Asia
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The Phenomenology of Gravidity explores the particularity of
women's engagements with gestation, linking the denial of certain
embodied experiences of pregnancy to gender oppression. Employing
the term 'gravidity' to name the metaphysical condition of having
conceived, Lymer develops a theory of maternity that emphasises the
interactive nature of gestation, highlighting the necessity for
women to choose to become maternal as an important factor in
optimal foetal development. Critically drawing on bonding and
attachment theory, Lymer rethinks debates around abortion, adoption
and surrogacy which ignore the ethical and practical implications
of an understanding of gestation that is necessarily interactive
and embodied, challenging the view of the pregnant woman as a
passive container. Through an engagement with the work of
Merleau-Ponty, Levinas and Derrida, The Phenomenology of Gravidity
offers an ethical feminist framework for a hospitality of gravidity
which welcomes the place of the pregnant mother in all her guises,
while highlighting the medical, legal and ethical consequences of
failing in this welcome.
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