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Author:   Sheila Lintott (Bucknell University, USA) ,  Maureen Sander-Staudt (Southwest Minnesota State University, US)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9781138902480

ISBN 10:   1138902489
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   27 February 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction Sheila Lintott and Maureen Sander-Staudt Part 1: 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 2: Maternal Roles and Relations 6. The Practical and Theoretical Challenges of Mothering with Disabilities: A Feminist Standpoint Analysis Maeve M. O'Donovan 7. Mothers, Children with Disability, and Post-Modern 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 & World-Travelers: Towards a New Model for Care-ful Ethics Beckey Sukovaty Part 3: 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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Sheila Lintott is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bucknell University with research interests in feminist philosophy, philosophical aesthetics, and environmental philosophy. Her work appears in journals such as Hypatia, Environmental Ethics, and The British Journal of Aesthetics. She also edited Motherhood: Philosophy for Everyone—The Birth of Wisdom (Blackwell). Maureen Sander-Staudt is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University with academic expertise in feminist philosophy and literature. She has published in Hypatia, The Journal of Social Philosophy, and is the co-editor of Applying Care Ethics to Business, with Maurice Hamington (Springer Press).

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