Phenomenology of Gravidity Repb

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Lymer
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2016
• EAN: 9781783486885
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-688-5
• Series: Continental Philosophy in Austral-Asia; Continental Philosophy in Aust; Continental Philosophy in Austral-Asia
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works