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Philosophy and the Maternal Body - Reading Silence (Hardcover)
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Philosophy and the Maternal Body - Reading Silence (Hardcover)
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This volume is an investigation into the silence of the feminine
voice in Western thought, considering the important relationship
between maternity and philosophy. The author shows how maternity
has often been appropriated by some male theorists and explores
ways of approaching motherhood and pregnancy from a feminist
perspective. Drawing on examples such as Plato's allegory of the
cave, the "productive man" of Marx philosophy, Sigmund Freud's and
Melanie Klein's writings on the mother and the mother-daughter
relationship, and the psychoanalytic and feminist insights of
Irigaray and Kristeva, she shows how terms such as denial,
repression and foreclosure offer insight into the philosophical
construction of the maternal body. The book also draws upon the
work of Althusser and Lyotard, showing how their work bears
importantly on the silence of the feminine. Throughout the text
Michelle Boulous Walker questions the assumptions that silence is
simply the absence of language and presents new strategies for
understanding how silence operates.
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