Sander-Staudt Maureen - Philosophical inquiry into pregnancy, childbirth and mothering: maternal subjects

Philosophical Inquiries into Pregnancy,
Childbirth, and Mothering

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32 Philosophical Inquiries into Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering

Maternal Subjects

Edited by Sheila Lintott and Maureen Sander-Staudt

Maternal Subjects

Edited by Sheila Lintott and
Maureen Sander-Staudt

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Philosophical inquiries into pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering : maternal

subjects / edited by Sheila Lintott and Maureen Sander-Staudt.

p. cm. (Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ; 32)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. MotherhoodPhilosophy. 2. MotherhoodPsychological aspects.

3. ChildbirthPsychological aspects. I. Lintott, Sheila. II. Sander-Staudt,Maureen.

HQ759.P485 2011

306.874'301dc23

2011027122

ISBN13: 978-0-415-89187-5 (hbk)

ISBN13: 978-0-203-14768-9 (ebk)

Dedicated to Sara Ruddick (19352011),
an inspiration and source of wisdom and courage
for thinking mothers everywhere.

Contents

Introduction
SHEILA LINTOTT AND MAUREEN SANDER-STAUDT

PART I
Maternal Norms, Practices, and Insights

1 Sara Ruddick, Transracial Adoption, and the Goals of Maternal Practice
JEAN KELLER

2 Where Did I Go? The Invisible Postpartum Mother
JENNIFER BENSON AND ALLISON WOLF

3 Into the Mouths of Babes: The Moral Responsibility to Breastfeed
CHRISTINE OVERALL AND TABITHA BERNARD

4 Tales from the Tit: The Moral and Political Implications of Useless Lactational Suffering
LISSA SKITOLSKY

5 Motherhood and the Workings of Disgust
SHERRI IRVIN

PART II
Maternal Roles and Relations

6 The Practical and Theoretical Challenges of Mothering with Disabilities: A Feminist Standpoint Analysis
MAEVE O'DONOVAN

7 Mothers, Children with Disability, and Postmodern Sainthood
CHRISTINE A. JAMES

8 Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Dynamics of Mothering a Daughter
ALISON STONE

9 Why Don't Philosophers Tell Their Mothers Stories? Philosophy, Motherhood, and Imaginative Resistance
JOSHUA SHAW

10 On Stepmothers as Hybrid Beings and World Travelers:Towards a New Model for Care-full Ethics
BECKEY SUKOVATY

PART III
Maternal Phenomena, Phenomenology, and Aesthetics

11 Creating Life, Giving Birth, and Learning to Die
BROOKE SCHUENEMAN

12 The Pregnant Body as a Public Body: An Occasion for Community Care, Instrumental Coercion, and a Singular Collectivity
JULIE PIERING

13 Becoming Bovine: A Phenomenology of Early Motherhood, and Its Practical, Political Consequences
SALLY FISCHER

14 The Aesthetics of Childbirth
PEG BRAND AND PAULA GRANGER

15 The Sublimity of Gestating and Giving Birth: Toward a Feminist Conception of the Sublime
SHEILA LINTOTT

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Acknowledgments