Mad mothers, bad mothers, & what a "good" mother would do : the ethics of ambivalence /
Sarah LaChance Adams gives a compelling account of maternal ambivalence. Taking the mother's conflicting needs and desires to nurture, on the one hand, and to be independent and free of care-taking responsibilities, on the other, as a model for the ethical relationship, she argues that all hum...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2014
New York : [2014] |
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Table of Contents:
- Mad mothers, bad mothers, and what a "good" mother would do
- The mother as ethical exemplar in care ethics
- Motherhood's janus head
- Maternity as vulnerability in the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas
- Maternity as dehiscience in the flesh in the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Maternity as negotiating mutual transcendence in the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir
- Conclusion : The stranger of my flesh - an existential phenomenological ethics