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Our amorous and erotic experiences do not simply bring us pleasure;
they shape our very identities, our ways of relating to ourselves,
each other and our shared world. This volume challenges some of our
most prevalent assumptions relating to identity, the body,
monogamy, libido, sexual identity, seduction, fidelity, orgasm, and
more. In twelve original and philosophically thought-provoking
essays, the authors reflect on the broader meanings of love and
sex: what their shifting historical meanings entail for us in the
present; how they are constrained by social conventions; the
ambiguous juxtaposition of agency and passivity that they reveal;
how they shape and are formed by political institutions; the
opportunities they present to resist the confines of gender and
sexual orientation; how cultural artefacts can become incorporated
into the body; and how love and sex both form and justify our
ethical world views. Ideal for students both in philosophy and
gender studies, this highly readable book takes us to the very
heart of two of the most important dimensions of human experience
and meaning-making: to the seductive and alluring, confusing and
frustrating, realms of love and sex.
Our amorous and erotic experiences do not simply bring us pleasure;
they shape our very identities, our ways of relating to ourselves,
each other and our shared world. This volume challenges some of our
most prevalent assumptions relating to identity, the body,
monogamy, libido, sexual identity, seduction, fidelity, orgasm, and
more. In twelve original and philosophically thought-provoking
essays, the authors reflect on the broader meanings of love and
sex: what their shifting historical meanings entail for us in the
present; how they are constrained by social conventions; the
ambiguous juxtaposition of agency and passivity that they reveal;
how they shape and are formed by political institutions; the
opportunities they present to resist the confines of gender and
sexual orientation; how cultural artefacts can become incorporated
into the body; and how love and sex both form and justify our
ethical world views. Ideal for students both in philosophy and
gender studies, this highly readable book takes us to the very
heart of two of the most important dimensions of human experience
and meaning-making: to the seductive and alluring, confusing and
frustrating, realms of love and sex.
While the existence of maternal ambivalence has been evident for
centuries, it has only recently been recognized as central to the
lived experience of mothering. This accessible, yet intellectually
rigorous, interdisciplinary collection demonstrates its presence
and meaning in relation to numerous topics such as pregnancy,
birth, Caesarean sections, sleep, self-estrangement, helicopter
parenting, poverty, environmental degradation, depression, anxiety,
queer mothering, disability, neglect, filicide and war rape. Its
authors deny the assumption that mothers who experience ambivalence
are bad, evil, unnatural, or insane. Moreover, historical records
and cross-cultural narratives indicate that maternal ambivalence
appears in a wide range of circumstances; but that it becomes
unmanageable in circumstances of inequity, deprivation and
violence. From this premise, the authors in this collection raise
imperative ethical, social, and political questions, suggesting
possibilities for vital cultural transformations. These candid
explorations demand we rethink our basic assumptions about how
mothering is experienced in everyday life.
When a mother kills her child, we call her a bad mother, but, as
this book shows, even mothers who intend to do their children harm
are not easily categorized as "mad" or "bad." Maternal love is a
complex emotion rich with contradictory impulses and desires, and
motherhood is a conflicted state in which women constantly
renegotiate the needs mother and child, the self and the other.
Applying care ethics philosophy and the work of Emmanuel Levinas,
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Simone de Beauvoir to real-world
experiences of motherhood, Sarah LaChance Adams throws the inherent
tensions of motherhood into sharp relief, drawing a more nuanced
portrait of the mother and child relationship than previously
conceived. The maternal example is particularly instructive for
ethical theory, highlighting the dynamics of human interdependence
while also affirming separate interests. LaChance Adams
particularly focuses on maternal ambivalence and its morally
productive role in reinforcing the divergence between oneself and
others, helping to recognize the particularities of situation, and
negotiating the difference between one's own needs and the desires
of others. She ultimately argues maternal filicide is a social
problem requiring a collective solution that ethical philosophy and
philosophies of care can inform.
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.
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.
When a mother kills her child, we call her a bad mother, but, as
this book shows, even mothers who intend to do their children harm
are not easily categorized as "mad" or "bad." Maternal love is a
complex emotion rich with contradictory impulses and desires, and
motherhood is a conflicted state in which women constantly
renegotiate the needs mother and child, the self and the other.
Applying care ethics philosophy and the work of Emmanuel Levinas,
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Simone de Beauvoir to real-world
experiences of motherhood, Sarah LaChance Adams throws the inherent
tensions of motherhood into sharp relief, drawing a more nuanced
portrait of the mother and child relationship than previously
conceived. The maternal example is particularly instructive for
ethical theory, highlighting the dynamics of human interdependence
while also affirming separate interests. LaChance Adams
particularly focuses on maternal ambivalence and its morally
productive role in reinforcing the divergence between oneself and
others, helping to recognize the particularities of situation, and
negotiating the difference between one's own needs and the desires
of others. She ultimately argues maternal filicide is a social
problem requiring a collective solution that ethical philosophy and
philosophies of care can inform.
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