Philosophy and the Maternal Body - Reading Silence

Informationen zum Autor Michelle Boulous Walker Klappentext Philosophy and the Maternal Body gives a new voice to the mother and the maternal body which have often been viewed as silent within philosophy. Michelle Boulous Walker clearly shows how some male theorists have appropriated maternity, and suggests new ways of articulating the maternal body and women's experience of pregnancy and motherhood. Zusammenfassung Philosophy and the Maternal Body is an invaluable study of the crucial significance of the maternal body in philosophy, and is essential reading for all those in gender studies, feminist philosophy, psychoanalytic studies and literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Part One: Reading Silence 1. Speaking Silence: Woman's Voice in Philosophy 2. Philosophy: Reading Denial 3. Reading Psychoanalysis: Psychotic Texts/Maternal Pre-texts 4. Philosophy and Silence: The Différend 5. Unquiet Silence: Kristeva Reading Marx with Freud Part Two: Speaking Silence 6. Kristeva: Naming the Problem 7. Collecting Mothers: Women at the Symposium 8. Mothers and Daughters: Speaking Conclusion: Speaking With(in) The Symbolic Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Boulous Walker
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.02.1998
• EAN: 9780415168571
• ISBN: 978-0-415-16857-1
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Sociology: family & relationships, Feminism & feminist theory, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Feminism and feminist theory, History of Western philosophy, Sociology: family and relationships, Semiotics / semiology, Sociology: Birth