Jane Lymer

The Phenomenology of Gravidity

Reframing Pregnancy and the Maternal through Merleau-Ponty, Levinas and Derrida

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Produktbeschreibung

This book introduces the experience and process of gestation into the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Levinas and Derrida as a feminist project of maternal emancipation.

Produktdetails

• Continental Philosophy in Austral-Asia
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9781783486885
• ISBN-10: 1783486880
• Artikelnr.: 43491227

Autorenporträt

Jane Lymer is a research fellow in Philosophy at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Feminism and the Maternal
1. Representing Gravidity
2. Maternal Hospitality, Ethics and Ontology
Part Two: The Ontology of Gravidity
3. Gestational Accouplement
4. Alterity and Maternal Flesh
Part Three: Gestational Hospitality
5. Medical Hospitality
6. Gestational Identity and a Feminist Manifesto
Part Four: The Phenomenology of Gravidity
7. The Politics of Gravidity- Bonding and Attachment
8. Rethinking the Gestational Relation
References
Notes
Index