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What do the Promise Keeper's Movement and the Million Man March reveal about our notions of masculinity and paternal responsibility? What can such films as Varda's Vagabond and Bergman's Persona tell us about contemporary notions of masculinity and femininity? In this provocative new book, well-known feminist and philosopher Kelly Oliver examines the dynamics of identity to develop a new theory which challenges traditional notions of paternity and maternity.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Part I: Abject Fathers
Chapter 3 The Morality of American Manhood, Responsibility and Virility
Chapter 4 Fatherhood and the Promise of Ethics
Chapter 5 Abjection in Fassbinder's
Dispair and Polanski's
The TenantPart 6 Part II: Desiring Mother
Chapter 7 Kristeva's Imaginary Father as a Screen for the Desiring Mother
Chapter 8 Recognition, Witnessing, and Identity: Drucilla Cornell on Family Law
Chapter 9 Face to Face With the Mother: Alterity in Bergman's
PersonaPart 10 Part III: Subjectivity Without Subjects
Chapter 11 Fractal Politics: How to Use the Subject
Chapter 12 Between Soma and Psyche: Kristeva and the Crisis in Meaning
Chapter 13 Subjectivity Without Subjects: Circulation from Vision to Visions
Chapter 14 Beyond Recognition: Witnessing the Other Otherwise in Varda's
VagabondChapter 15 Notes
Chapter 16 Bibliography
Chapter 17 Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of thirteen scholarly books, ten anthologies, and over 100 articles, including work on campus rape, reproductive technologies, women and the media, film noir, and Alfred Hitchcock. Her work has been translated into seven languages, and she has been published in The New York Times.
Zusammenfassung
An examination of notions of paternity and maternity in culture, film, science and law. It studies the role of paternal responsibility, virility and race in such events as the Million Man March and suggests ways to conceive of self-other relations and the subjective identity at stake in them.
